(b)logophile

I’d like to celebrate read-an-ebook week with something positive, but I don’t have anything even half-prepared except some thoughts about DRM. That’s bad enough, but I won’t even be arguing against DRM for ebooks. I certainly won’t argue for it — I’m against the idea on principle, so if I thought it through and concluded [...]

Irregular Life is a flash game which will get you addicted to Conway’s Game of Life. I played to about level 15 just by symmetry-guessing –you see three gaps in a pattern and you’ve got three squares to place– so it’s not that hard, at least in those early levels. That’s not really the point, [...]

We’re back from Greece with many photos and stories, which I’ll start putting online in the weekend. For now, a geek-out interlude, mixing work-in-progress from the office (not my own work, admittedly, but the desk next door) and beer.

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