Reviews and other ponderings
Recently, I have discovered an iPad/iPhone game I greatly enjoy, called Strategery. You can get it here. In a nutshell, it’s a Risk-like strategy game, where each player gets armies based on the number of countries he or she controls. Online play is great fun, and it is possible to have multiple games in progress, [...]
I have been listening to ‘The Talk Show’ a lot recently, featuring John Gruber and Dan Benjamin. I have begun to notice a certain pattern to the conversation, and thought others might like to join in on my weekly game of Bingo. (Update – fixed a couple of typos.)
I wish I could touch-type. When I first started using a keyboard, it was with a ZX81, which had a smooth, plastic surface to type on, and each key needed a good hard push. I developed a way of typing pretty fast, and it has stayed with me. The problem is that now, as my [...]
I was thinking about facebook over Christmas, because I met up with so many people for whom facebook represents just about everything useful about their computer. Among the people I know online, facebook is not very fashionable. I don’t use it, for several reasons, but chiefly because many young members of my extended family use [...]
I have been using the iPhone app Path recently. It’s a fun way to share photos with friends: a kind of social network where you only share with carefully selected people. In fact, the app limits the user to 50 friends. It was this consideration for privacy that I liked about it. I could use [...]
I downloaded an app for my iPhone last night which really confused me. Called Doodle God, it is riding high in the Top Paid Downloads section, is the lowest possible price, and has a nearly perfect rating from users. How could I go wrong in buying it? I think I made my first mistake expecting [...]
I have always had messy handwriting. I got into no end of trouble at school because of it, and frequently had to rewrite my school work until my teachers could read it, or they could be convinced that I could read it. This weakness was repulsive to me, and I admired people who seemed able [...]