Take a good look at any big IT system and you can usually trace its roots to one of two places. The first is the one that all of us…
The explosion in social networking sites and technologies over the past few years has been nothing short of staggering. When I first joined Facebook sometime back in 2007 I only…
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of location based technology. There’s just so much information available to us out there that the use of filters has become a…
Call me old fashioned but I’m still not convinced about the whole motion controller thing. Sure there are some games where its highly appropriate (light saber battles anyone?) but overall…
I romanticize space quite a lot here and in real life as well. The sheer scale of our universe is something that is so mind boggling that I simply have…
After losing around 6 weeks of my life to a project I’ve only vaguely referred to as “The Plan” I promised myself a month off to catch up on my…
There’s really nothing quite like the Space Shuttle. Every part of it has been subjected to countless hours of engineering with the culmination being one of the most complex and…
Quantic Dream is a name that you’ll be familiar with if you’ve been a long time reader of this blog but outside of that you’d be hard pressed to find…
Despite my tag-line explicitly mentioning finance I haven’t really been harping on the subject much recently. I’ve always managed to find something else far more interesting than boring everyone to…
After the initial media flurry that was triggered by Google pointing their finger squarely at the Chinese government in relation to illegal hacking into their various systems there really wasn’t…