AJAX Fun

Sadly I’m not playing with bleach this week but having some fun with AJAX, to avoid boring you with details, lets sum it up by saying:It allows the creation of interactives websites without the need for the users browser reloading.Although we have quite a few new application that use this functionality, I haven’t really seen [...]

The Lost Experience (ARG)

Hot on the heals of the new series of Lost (2nd UK) an Alternate reality game (ARG) has been launched. If you haven’t seen heard of ARG’s don’t worry, they often start with single piece of information known as a ‘rabbit hole’ (referencing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll) which drags people into the [...]

Going Retro

Armed with drink and snacks, Dok and I spend the evening looking up old games and listening to the dulcet tones of ZX Spectrum loading noises. We also found some classic samples of in-game music Remember when games had a seperate cassette with music you could listen to while playing the game? Seems odd that [...]

When software goes wrong

I don’t tend to read much tech news at home, but generally pay a weekly visit to Rupert Goodwins diary over at zdnet. During my last visit to the site Rupert made an entry regarding crap error messages that you will often find littering many programs. It’s the kind of thing you would expect to [...]

Where is the news then?

Sometimes I hate the British media, No really I do. Yea we excel at delivery fairly unbiased news , but with this countries bizarre sport/media fixation it makes it hard to resist the urge to clasp your hands on your ears and start chanting “La-la-la-la-la I’m not listening to you”. Like when we encounter days [...]