July 20th, 2010 by adam
Someone makes a highly controversial amateur YouTube video, showing an Auschwitz survivor and his children and grandchildren dancing at Auschwitz, to the song “I Will Survive”. And, in the middle of the debate *that* stirs up, someone hits them with a copyright violation, forcing YouTube to remove the video. There’s no option to read why [...]
July 19th, 2010 by adam
Is there a place to complain that UK government departments are breaking the internet standards and refuse to fix their websites? Occasionally, you find sites that do this. Usually, when you tell the organization, they’re a little embarassed, and rush to fix them. From HMRC, I got a polite, pedantic, *but entirely incorrect* response telling [...]
July 18th, 2010 by adam
Android 2.2 has a nasty bug where it disables the SD Card on Google Nexus One phones. Fine, I found a workaround. But there’s a down-side – what happens when you only AFTERWARDS remember that it’s got the ONLY copy of several hundred photos, including plenty of uniques that can never be re-captured? No way [...]
July 15th, 2010 by adam
Google’s Nexus One auto-upgraded a few weeks ago, to Android 2.2 It immediately broke itself. It was no longer able to use the SD card. As a side-effect, it was impossible to install any applications. Making this a very expensive, very heavy, very slow excuse for a mobile phone. The error was that the SD [...]
July 14th, 2010 by adam
There’s a conference in Brighton this week, and one of the industry media – GamesIndustry.biz – has a base here, so they’ve been cropping up a lot in the reporting. In passing, I noticed some glaring howlers in their web-design. The 1990′s called, they want their web-design templates back… Three glaring errors I noticed in [...]
July 8th, 2010 by adam
…and Amazon’s intelligent recommendation engine leaps into action: (if you don’t know who Tim Langdell is, and you work in the games industry, just Google him.
July 6th, 2010 by adam
There are many examples, every day, of people saying stupid things on the internet. But rarely do you see smart people write long reasoned arguments that they appear to wholeheartedly believe, yet are fundamentally untrue. Jason Robert Brown has written a great post, and comes across as highly literate, reasonable, fair, etc. I was rooting [...]
July 5th, 2010 by adam
(where normaly people might “Be original, then Apologize if you fail”) Just a minor piece of recent DRAMA! DRAMA!, something to cheer up the week… This excellent piece of Advertising / Fun / Augmented Reality / Creativity was – like most big-budget ideas – based on someone else’s idea, someone who had the basic idea [...]
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