The surprising thing about BlackBerry outages
The surprising thing, to me at the least, whenever there’s a huge story all over the technology pages of the BBC or the Guardian about the BlackBerry Messenger/email services being down for huge periods of time, is that people are surprised at this. The internet has flourished and works so very well because it is [...]
The real problems behind CCP’s botched forum launch
Okay, so this blog, back in the days of old, used to talk about EVE a lot. Now, I don’t play EVE – I haven’t for well over a year. I stopped playing because I lost all faith in the company that runs it, CCP Games hf. At one point I was choosing an education [...]
SURHUL, UCU and referendums
Apologies if you’re not a student, student of Royal Holloway, or otherwise in the mood for some politics. If you just read my blog for the geek stuff, move on. I don’t like politics. I stay out of it when I can and when I get involved it’s because I actually think things are too [...]