Infernus

My main investment of the week has been a PSP. I've been tempted for some time, and when DevHook came out for firmware 2.71 I was finally convinced. Now you can have a 2.71 PSP (the latest is 2.81) and still run 1.5 firmware via flash. Hence homebrew is quite achievable, an advantage which the [...]

Don Brash, the leader of NZ’s centre-right National party (think Tories but more incompetent), has been attacked for stating that if Maori die of lung cancer it’s essentially their own fault. The attacks demonstrate the biggest problem with the modern age: everyone wants their rights but have no concept of responsibility. We see this all [...]

It is somewhat ironic that the Pope has got himself in the ever simmering water of Muslim public opinion by trying to link religion and reason, two things that are the definition of mutual exclusion. Any reasonable examination of religion is bound to fail, for no religion answers the big question of live, the universe [...]

While busying my mind in contemplation as to whether I need a Nintendo DS Lite I have stumbled across a decent, and what's more free, Tetris clone for the Pocket PC, Kevtris.  At last, a reason to use the thing!

There is a wonderful event in London called ‘Open House’. Held yearly, a vast array of London buildings are opened to the public, free of charge. Some may be generally open for a fee, but most close their doors for the remainder of the year and so this provides a unique opportunity to investigate the [...]

We finally have a release date for the most interesting thing to come out of the console industry in a significant amount of time – the Nintendo Wii. While Microsoft and Sony are trying to make things look pretty and cost a fortune, Nintendo are doing interesting things with online content and accelerometers. The downside [...]

One has to question if the online world is an exercise in homogeneity or individuality – is the consistent (and often unwisely unguarded) content of MySpace a quest for individual expression or the start of the rise of the hive mind, sentient internet, world domination and so on? New Scientist have chimed in this week [...]

Those for whom the vast array of visual styles in Mac OS was far too limited will do doubt take pleasure in the new iTunes 7 visual style. Yes, another one. Sigh. But otherwise it’s not too bad – bar the fact that it gets album art really quite wrong on occasion. And the titles [...]

It’s very fashionable these days to knock the Last Night of the Proms as a display of misplaced imperialistic nationalism. In these days following the decline and fall of the British Empire we are left without a clear view of the UK’s place in the world, and a predictable reaction follows whenever something harkens back [...]

Last week I got the chance to go to Amsterdam for the day. This was all rather exciting – new country, new city, millions of people eating calorie-packed syrup filler waffles – can you think of a better way to spend a day? Suffice to say I haven’t travelled for business for a couple of [...]