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Steampunk has gone fucking mainstream - I’m not quite sure why this makes me so hacked off but it does.

Life is about to get really tough for me. I’m at the thesis writing phase, and I have a few pieces of code left to run while I write the first bits. My supervisor has given me a deathline, which I shall not pass without having handed the college a nice thesis.
I’m considering plan [...]

Today I learned about the Sprint Family Locator feature. It allows parents to track their kids (or, more generally, an “account holder” to track the other phones on the account) using GPS included in most snazzy phones sold these days. The trackee gets notified either every time the tracker requests its location, or “periodically.” There [...]

… was the future just turning over. “Not quite yet the headband of the Ono-Sendai deck in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, but close.” to quote Ken MacLeod, writer and general future seer-y sort.

I had an utter brainlapse today - my current set of Sony earphones are falling to bits and I need a new set. I went to Currys and walked out with a set of Sennheiser’s. A few minutes down Union street my brain finally snaps to and goes ‘wait - why do you have earphones?’ [...]