I wouldn’t normally comment on something I read on Penny-Arcade, but I today I was looking at the latest strip and I thought I just had to say something. Basically, I don’t know what everybody’s problem with Jack Thompson is. Why do people even take h… more »

The posts have started to slow down recently, but not for lack of ideas on my part! I’ve been moving house over the last week or two, and it’s tough to find 30 minutes free to type all this out what with the packing, unpacking, transporting and so on. Bu… more »

The “solution” to the problem of spam has a number of requirements on it. Here I’ll list my basic requirements, numbered for easy reference, along with a brief description of why I think the requirement is important. So, in no particular order: Compat… more »

I saw this list of “Basic C# coding guidelines” and I started off just replying to it in a comment, but there are so many that I disagree with, that I’m going to do it in a whole separate post.I’ll answer all the ones I disagree with, if I didn’t inc… more »

Apparently, Google is in hot water over copyrighted material that is available on YouTube. I am not completely shocked by this, but some of the things the media companies are saying are really dumb. For example: Viacom, which owns popular programs lik… more »