Reconstructed Beauty

I once read that the greatest beauty is in destruction, and that nothing is truly realised until it has been completed and then ravaged. I can understand the appeal of it, the idea of taking away that which makes it beautiful, only to enhance that which remains. A ruined church maintains its potential for beauty; [...]

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The Reticule

There’s another reason I’ve been a bit busy this week, and that’s because I’ve been helping set up a PC gaming blog with a couple of chums made through Rock, Paper, Shotgun called The Reticule. Apparently I thought up the name, and I’m sure at the time I thought it was something about hitting our [...]

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The Sunday Story

Here we are again, after a week of negligable posting I feel kind of bad. Truth is, I’ve had Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and the Left 4 Dead demo to keep my occupied. That should have kept my occupied, but of course I had even more on my plate than usual. I had that [...]

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The Wednesday Exercise

I didn’t actually write anything in my Wednesday seminar this week, hence the fact that this is going out on a Friday, not a Wednesday. So instead I’m going to tantalise you with something I wrote a good 4(?) years ago. It’s probably one of the first pieces of writing I did.. and it’s part [...]

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Why Developers Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love The Customer

This isn’t going to be an Angry Internet Man rant. I don’t have the energy to just place a few hundred words of anger on this page. Instead I’m going to brainstorm and try to get to the bottom of this, and of course, I’m going to succeed where the corporations can’t or won’t. I’m [...]

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