100 percent alloy

Great pedantic comment on the Amazon website. Component was made of “100% aluminium alloy”. If people don’t know what alloy means, why are they so keen to claim they are using it? Just because they think ‘alloy’ means it is good.

Amazon Tweets

Amazon have added link to post details of your purchases via ‘social media’, so you can inform the world of how you are spending your money. Does that mean every purchase you tweet or post on facebook about counts as conspicuous consumption?

Wikipedia offline

The Wikipedia site was disabled today to protest against the restriction of free speech in proposed new legislation. Read More about the SOPA and PIPA bills at Wikipedia. If you usually use wikipedia you may find this information useful, I previously wrote about how to have access to Wikipedia while offline. If you are really [...]

Read wikipedia offline thanks to 0.8 release and kiwix

Read Wikipedia Offline.

Mornington Cresent

I made some bug fixes to the Mornington Cresent game on my webpages. Due to a programming error it was not possible to win and see the congratulatory message upon reaching Mornington Cresent. The error has now been fixed so why not have a go? The original Mornington Crescent is a strategy game featured in [...]