Good news… and bad news…

I have the res­ults for my thesis. The good news is that I got an HD. 80%. Scraped into an HD.  The bad news is that as I’ve never been a huge fan of com­pet­i­tion or grad­ing like that because I am hyper-com­pet­it­ive and I don’t like...

Maus in the Haus

I’ve been mean­ing to go and see the rather excel­lent exhib­i­tion of Art Spieg­le­man’s “Maus” on at the Jewish Museum ever since I fin­ished my thesis. The exhib­i­tion fin­ishes in another two weeks. mirelle21 has pro­posed brunch and a visit to the...

from the archives

I was eleven when I first played with pro­gram­ming, hidden away in lib­rar­ies where the boys played space invaders and I dis­covered the secret codes that would make you sing to me in elec­tronic beeps, that would cause loops of words to scroll down...

Privacy and GMail

Hmm. So, zara­bee gave me a GMail account and I notice that delve has one too and now jen_tlemnfarmer is tout­ing them. These are among the smarter folk I know, tech savvy and cul­tur­ally savvy. The T&Cs scared me, and so I don’t...