Pete Hindle

(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 sucks. Seriously, [...]

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 access [...]

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 time [...]

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, but [...]

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 me [...]

Bin Badder is a Mac-only piece of art software that I wrote for the online magazine Unlikely 2.0, sometime in the past half-decade. I found it recently when vanity Googling myself, and decided to update the software a little bit and put a copy of it on my site.
(A brief discourse into vanity Googling – [...]

2010 and after are going to be about post-digital, by which I mean what comes after we’ve finished staring at our screens. We’re going to see an explosion in the amount of physical objects that would have been impossible without using digital process in the workflow, and objects that won’t work without a connection of some kind [...]

Uncovered during seasonal tidying, a small cache of 3.5 floppies, still sealed with their “license agreement” stickers.
Why do I blog this?
One of these disks has been left, unopened, for thirteen years. The other came in an eight-inch box, decorated with Alber’s trademark screenprints, that I used as decoration. Now, possibly six years after tossing the [...]

I realised today that I could have titled this “Life, the University, and Everything”, which would have worked a lot better. Hey ho.
The grandiose title of this piece could be read as a sign that I’m going to write about things other than relevant to the course. In general, I’m going to steer clear of [...]

I’m putting this up because my mum told me she liked it. Thanks! It’s a video made with the programming language Processing, inspired by the work of Douglas Coupland.