(b)logophile

They’ve given me a new desk. They being the university, and the stated reason being that health regulations require everyone to be able to adjust the height of their desk.

Now this is obviously nonsense. We already have height-adjustable chairs, which give you the full range of body-to-desk relative positions. The real motivation, I suspect, is [...]

This year’s Interactive Fiction Competition entries are live. I’ll be very interested to see the effect Inform7 has had on the competition. Emily Short is blogging reviews as she plays11. And she has a new Wordpress-based website (well, new to me — I’ve been out of touch a long time) which looks really rather nice. [...]

Pharyngula calls this little fellow “Piglet” but we (and, to be fair, plenty of commentators) know better.

(Genuine update coming Real Soon Now, with pics from the weekend and the visit of the prodigal brother.)