Just watched the trailer for the “Doom” movie. Item the first: Hell is not involved. Instead, there’s some stuff about viruses and suchlike. So, then “DNA and shit .. and now everyones a zombie.” Not really Doom at all. More .. oh .. what’s the word… Resident Evil. Yeah, that’s…
I’ve just finished reading a book called “The Weapon” by one Michael Z. Williamson. I purchased this book solely on the recommendation of the author of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary which is on my list of daily reads. “The Weapon” can best be described, I think, as 2/3…
Right. Flew down to Dunedin on tuesday, for a meeting with a possible customer. Did my standard “satellite based data networks have the following advantages over ground-based” speech, and carefully didn’t give the “and here’s the much larger list of why it’s much much worse.” speech. In…
I just watched several episodes of a TV show called Wonder Showzen. I don’t think this isn’t actually screening in NZ yet, on any of the standard or sky channels. It’s on MTV2 in the US, and I don’t think we get that. I haven’t…
James Doohan died yesterday, aged 85. People sometimes ask me why I got into networks and engineering and general geekery, and I tell them that my brain seems to be hard-coded to enjoy this kind of tech stuff. But if I had to point at some cultural markers that encouraged…
The crippling reach of methamphetamine abuse has become the [United States] leading drug problem affecting local law enforcement agencies, according to a survey of 500 sheriff’s departments in 45 states. … The report comes soon after the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy restated its stance that marijuana…
Annette and I watched S01E01 of “Pimp my Ride UK” over the weekend. This is a port of the PMR show from the US to the UK, obviously, and is screening on MTV UK. Jesus. We laughed a lot. We laughed a little bit at the workers in the custom…
A celebrity girlfriend was among British and Irish Lions players’ families and partners refused entry to the official after-test-match function. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3333615a10,00.html “The girlfriends looked beautiful, they were wearing Lions jerseys and jackets with jeans and Ugg boots… Insert Tui Ad…