Nickster’s View

“HCI is not the science of user interfaces, just as astronomy is
not the science of telescopes.”
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, 2004

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

UK Cannabis Prices by Variety of Cannabis per kilo
I can’t believe Ask Jeeves turned up this, and I wasn’t even asking for that.
It came back to me after accidentally entering ‘marijuana’ into an Ask Jeeves box instead of the local archive search for the site I was on. At the top it recommends that […]

And so here I sit, in the lab supervisor’s office at Brunel, paying back the last of my bursary hours. Someone has just knocked on my door for help because they can’t get into the lab. Their mag strip access card apparently isn’t working and he’s been banging away trying to get someone […]

One in five Brits ‘buy software from spam’ | The Register
By John Leyden
“an estimated 5.4m - 5.8m Britons have bought software through junk mail offers”
I can’t believe anyone actually buys from spam, let alone 5m of the morons. Not only do they perpetuate the stuff by proving that spam is an effective marketing […]

The Killer List of Videogames

Classic quote : “As with all of Sega’s vector games, the Electrohome color vector monitor used for this game has a notorious tendency to catch fire. It is unknown what to do to prevent this.”
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Piled Higher and Deeper
Very NMT
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…but you can’t make him use it.
Case in point: Friday lunchtime I scoot into Uxbridge to grab a headphone/mic combo to use with Skype. Cheapest and easiest is Argos so I head in there to be confronted by a huge winding queue of lunchtime shoppers

However next to this mammoth human snake were three […]

Everyone knows Hotmail is a POS. It’s slow, spam ridden and unreliable (it used to be great until they tried running it on MS). Gmail on the other hand is brilliant - fast, clean and reliable - and that’s still in beta where Hotmail has been live for well over 5 years.
So it […]

It’s been quite a while since I installed-tried-uninstalled Skype. Can’t remember how long ago it was but it was a world apart from the version I’m currently using (1.0.0.106). Have been using it to run underneath Worms Armageddon so that I can play with Evz (Worcs) and Tom (Paris) and chat during the […]

TrekEarth | Learning about the world through photography
Lose yourself for an hour in here
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always share your jelly beans

Nintendo DS revolutionizes hand-held gaming with dual-screens, touch-screen technology, built-in PictoChat software and more.
So nice to see Nintendo back in the fray and kicking some handheld a$$. I particularly love the wireless multiplayer which works “30 to 100 feet and for some games just one Nintendo DS game card”. Well done Nintendo - […]