Bones' Blog of Stuff About Things

A couple of weeks back, while playing WoW on my desktop, I was treated to about 30 seconds of the virtual world crumbling into graphical oblivion. Parts of it stretched themselves toward an unseen origin while other parts changed colour like confused polygonal squid. Then the machine locked up. After a few attempted reboots that [...]

I’ve recently been working on a lot of user interfaces. I am not using the term in the common, rather narrow, sense of a GUI, but in the broader sense of any and all forms of abstractions that are intended for practical use. These have included: The Ant scripts for a build/test process and the [...]