Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category

i am jack’s frustrated creativity

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Been a dry spell (in creative terms) recently. Not that I haven't been scribbling down ideas but not many of them have been making it to the final product or even beyond the initial drafts. Obviously the work being done with Infurious makes me want to exercise my creativity but ...

XCake.org is now back up.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Comment spam is a pain in the butt - to the point that XCake.org ended up with over eight thousand lines of spammer links and crap because I allowed open comments. This overhead caused a huge load on my MySQL server and it affected performance elsewhere so, in the end, ...

EyeCandy #1 painting

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Okay, I'm a hundred percent sure you can do better than me with my big inhuman paddles for fingers. Anyone done better? (take a screenshot with a quick press of Power and Home buttons). We'll hold a competition for the best colouring in soon on the Infurious and Blue Pilot Software web ...

An idea has no value until it is realised.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Gareth at Hunky Doray writes about 'ideas and implementation': There was an article a while ago about the value of ideas. And when I say value, the article basically said that ideas are worthless. An idea has no value until it is realised. This is no Platonic ideal we’re living in. ...

EyeCandy “Masked Marshall” on the App Store.

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

So, guys, it's out. You can buy EyeCandy #1, The Masked Marshall in "Mah Pony Must be Punished" straight from the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. We've also bagged one video review from Sakura as well as a detailed review from her Dad. So what's in the package. It's an ...

Android.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

The G1 (aka HTC Dream) is out and there's a lot about it. The Dream is a sleek competitor to the iPhone weighing only 20% more and being only 30% thicker. The shape of the phone makes typing on the physical keys a little awkward but you'll soon learn new ...

silliness, laughter and fun

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Stephen Fry writes: Nintendo understands that while play does involve competition, territoriality and rehearsal for war, it also involves silliness, laughter and fun. I adore silliness, laughter and fun. Maybe it comes with being a parent or maybe with marrying a woman who adores it also but I love that we laugh, ...

Android release today. TIME fairy tales.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Proving that TIME Magazine subscribes to the same dose of "stupid and misinformed" that so many other online publications have a direct tap into, Anita Hamilton exposes her ignorance with regards to the iPhone and Google's Android offerings in a hilariously titled piece "Google's Dream, Apple's Nightmare?" - a play ...

Things that have happened

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

At aroud 6 am, two of the Infurious team hit the streets with thirty T-shirts bearing the MURDERDROME logo, based on the tattoo of the anti-hero Brett Heller from the MURDERDROME comic. They were given out, along with some of PJ's comic, PREVIOUSLY, to anyone waiting outside the soon-to-be-opened Apple ...

IBC

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I'm attending IBC 2008 in Amsterdam this week and in the absence of a proper 'blog' on the Digital Circle web site (setting up a server takes seconds, getting domain changes...takes....longer) It's really a digital equipment trade show so it's not 100% suited to Digital Circle but, as Colin from Inferno ...