Pete Hindle

I’ve been trying to read things that don’t have a spaceship on the cover recently. Could it be the result of some sort of self-improvement kick? Well, maybe. But I have read most of the hard sf that’s out there at the minute, so it was also a good time to take a break. My [...]

If you’ve been given a router from your internet provider, I’d recommend throwing it away and replacing it with something else. Anything else. A forty quid ADSL router and modem is going to be as good as the free turd-with-ethernet-port you get in the post. Got that? Most of today has been an exercise in [...]

I often seem to myself like some sort of internet-appliance-made-flesh. And this month, we have the phone bill to prove it, with a massive overcharge for 47gb of ‘excess internet usage’. Thanks, BT! I love you too! However, after my last post I managed to climb out of my stained office chair, throw on some [...]

I’m terrible at getting things done. I’ve even read the book, but I still find it hard to get things finished; perhaps it’s the nearly persuasive presence of the Internet in my life. I have found myself wishing that I had somewhere to go that didn’t have the internet, so I could get more work [...]

Happily minding somebody else’s business, I was filling a bug report on Processing when my laptop finally up’d and died. I’ve been expecting it for a while though, but I thought I had a while left yet. I’d recommend reading the bug report for a clearer picture on what happened.