2014
Four Stories and a Moral
I think the problem with the Internet is that the feedback mechanism that would normally guide fundamentally good but misguided people back to the mean has been broken, often by naive nerds with good intentions, and those people who are at that mean have been conditioned not to interfere by those same forces. →
The Apple Watch
I will probably buy the first generation Apple watch because I am a nerd and I like nerd toys, but I would be surprised if it turned out to be more than a novelty I keep forgetting to put on in the morning. →
Google, Twitch, and the inexorable grind of capitalism
It's a deal that makes perfect sense for both parties, but the consumers lose. →
Meanwhile, on the set of the World of Warcraft movie…
On set: director Duncan Jones, and actors Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Paula Patton and Travis Fimmel. →
Software Development Sucks
One thing I've been trying to do in my daily life is to be less critical of other peoples software, especially in public places, and especially if I think someone who might have been responsible for that software might be listening. →
It's the Upload Speed
The advances in productivity, the opportunities to build the digital economy in Australia that should be the goal of a national infrastructure project like the NBN don't come from giving Foxtel and Netflix a bigger pipe to shovel content into our homes. They come from giving us connectivity that can talk back. →
Not Seeing the Forest for the Gotos
The Apple SSL bug existed, and remained undetected for a year and a half, because Apple wasn't testing their browser against dodgy certificates. And it made us unsafe because the NSA, amongst presumably many other individuals and organisations government and otherwise, were. →