Pete Hindle

As the following post shows, I’ve been messing around with my iPhone a bit. I left a huge comment on a Guardian article on Jailbreaking, relating my experiences, and I thought I’d republish a tweeked version of it here. I don’t do anything that weird with my phone normally, but in the past few days [...]

I sat down few days ago and made a concerted effort to watch Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a long, slightly flawed movie, but in the third act something interesting occurred to me. It wasn’t the fact that the alien spaceship was very cool, in that pre-CGI filmmaking way, nor anything [...]

Right after I made this 2004 called and asked for it’s internet back. I told them I’d mail it back to Zefrank as soon as I was finished with it.

I had Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on my iPhone for about 72 hours before I deleted it. GTA:CW is supposed to be one of the best games out there for the iPhone. It offers an immersive world, with full sandbox features, and it’s a continuation of one of the best game franchises around. So [...]

Way back in the eighties, there was a program called the “Why Don’t You…” Club, which generally encouraged people to get up off the couch and do something. This something was usually illustrated by some people demonstrating it on TV. Today – actually, as I write this, today, not the more generalised contemporaneous version of [...]

(SuperAmazingDoesItForYou video link) After a morning spent tussling with installing, then uninstalling Zotero, I’ve finally had it with those instructional videos that software designers create. I think that nothing beats the written word for communication of information, but I’m consistently finding that complex software is being explained by the use of an instructional video. And usually, that video [...]

I hate and love the way we browse the web. I’m almost certainly somebody with a high degree of addiction to the written word. It’s not an internet addiction; I was raised in a family that has an unholy veneration for the written word, and the advent of the internet just allowed me a greater [...]

There’s no need for Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapon delivery system. It’s an expensive waste of time – but not because of the idiotic stupidity of mass destruction. If North Korea can make nuclear weapons out of sticky-backed plastic, empty washing up bottles, a spare pack of SCUDs, and a giant rabbit, then isn’t it [...]

Genevieve Valentine is a writer and essayist, working in the SF area. She also has an obsession with Catherine Cookson TV movies, where high levels of snark are to be found – although this mainly seems to come out on her Livejournal blog. Zed Shaw is an important man in the Ruby on Rails world, [...]

I set myself a few goals regarding blogging after I got back on my feet. One of those was that I wanted to write more, and to write intelligently about topics that I find interesting, such as the uses of technology and science fiction. So far I’ve almost been keeping to a schedule. What really slows [...]