Geekery Archive

Social (Networking) Etiquette

I've spent a fair amount of my life as a member of online social networks, and it disappoints me that they are slightly less fun than they used to be. All the cool people appear to have been disconnected, sacked or excommunicated. I've compiled a quick list of guidelines for...
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I Don’t Play Games

Six years. That's how old I was when I first started regarding the contents of my pockets as my "inventory". That's how old I was when I first attempted to teleport, double-jump, spinning bird kick and hadouken. And that's how old I was when I first became horrifically disappointed with...
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UK Palm Pre

Luckily my phone took a bit of damage out in Madagascar, so I had the perfect opportunity to upgrade to a Palm Pre in January. O2 immediately gave me some bad vibes when their promise of a "free gift" turned out to be a charging dock instead of a goldfish...
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On Bad Innovation and the iPad

Apparently everyone got bored of Haiti last week and decided that touchscreen, keyboardless laptops were a much bigger world priority. Apple's offering was flatly panned* by fanboys and geeks for lacking multi-tasking, camera and phone capabilities, but at least it renewed interest in the upcoming HP Slate... which is basically...
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