Nickster’s View

OK/Cancel: “The Don” Reveals All: Part 1
Mailed a question into OK/Cancel a couple of weeks ago in the Ask Don (Norman) thing they’re doing. Today’s OK/Cancel has my question in and answered. The Don is apparently a man of few words but he’s just given me a reference-on-a-plate re: personalization and customization (american […]

Article: US scientists enjoy big bandwidth boost | New Scientist
Wish I was PhDing in the US…
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I use WinAmp, always have done. Why? Because it’s not Microsoft and it has always been a faithful and honest app (unlike the backdoor bonanza that WMP has been). In my work we’re using some WMP components so I have to have it installed.
So…what happened? This evening I wanted to crank […]

I’ve been researching my PhD since March this year and ever since I started it every now and then I get these pangs of doubt. I hope this is a natural thing and everyone who treads the PhD path feels it but it is pretty unnerving at times. I’m researching the effects that […]

John Peel is dead. Long live John Peel.

Apparently only the good die young, and Mr Peel was definitely good. He championed independent music and was one of only a few voices prepared to put his name and rep on the line and to fight for real music.
Now that he has gone, Radio 1 […]

Found this on the BBC website a few days ago :
Wombles animator Ivor Wood dies
Acclaimed British animator Ivor Wood has died at the age of 72.
Wood, a stop-motion expert, was instrumental in developing some of the most popular children’s shows on TV, including Postman Pat and The Wombles.
Born to a French mother, he learnt […]

I just googled for the word ‘charyotype’ and was returned a single result. I can’t believe that there’s only one site in the entire world that uses/makes reference to that word.
I thought it was a genetic term, along with genotype and phenotype and the one web reference google knows of appears to be a […]

Was reading a blog that was impressed by an album by Ataxia called “Automatic Writing”. It also had a helpful little link next to it for iTunes, so off I went and clicked on the link to preview some of this album. iTunes opens up and hits me with :

Which to me […]

A few hours of sample slicing and dicing mixed with a touch of nickster vitriol and one too many US news sites produced this, my first and probably only political statement. Two minutes and twenty three seconds of groovy Bushwhacking a la Nickster for your listening pleasure (right-click on file type desired below and […]

EA suck - it’s official (well, I said so). After a protracted argument with Microsoft over the control of server code for Xbox live EA were allowed the ability to run their own servers. One of the first games EA games to run on Live is Burnout 3, a fantastic crash-racer by Criterion […]

We all love Google. Without Google we’d all be back in the Internet dark ages using other search engines and wild goose chasing for a lot longer than we do now. But if the old saying “information is power” holds true, Google is pretty much a self-appointed global Ministry of Information and growing […]