A tale of "programming" woe.

Collapse by Jared Diamond. "How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive"

Fun is fun.

Is April 1st fun?  The good stuff is, the bad stuff grates.  Here's my rundown of today's gags.

Photos here.

Record £14m fine for rail company.

The ORR fine came on the same day that the chairman of Network Rail, Sir Ian McAllister, was knighted by the Prince of Wales for "services to transport."

There's more...

Illidan Stormrage down.

"Core Casual Gaming; How soccer mums came to play RTS games" - Stéphane Adamiak (Orange)

Part 2, Friday, continued.  In this update: "Collaboration FTW; What Game Studios and Game Studies can Learn from Each Other" - Robin Hunicke (EA)

Isn't it about time the Japanese government released some results - and a justification of their methods - for the so called "scientific research" used to justify Whaling?

I think the Australian government are onto something in calling out the Japanese as liars.  Do the Japanese people realise that the world by-and-large sees the whole ICR justification as a huge obvious bare-faced lie?  How do they feel about the world thinking of them as a dishonest nation?

As presented by me, at the Game Focus Germany conference, 2008.  See here: homepage.mac.com/codemonkey_uk/gfg08-transitions.html.  Exported slides as flash, which is missing the transitions, but all the content seems to be intact, so that'll have to do.  I kinda planned to record a voice track and export as quick time, but then I realised if I waited till I'd done that, it most likely would never get done.  It's a 2MB flash file, so be patient, it'll load eventually, just click to move through the slides.