Archive for April, 2009

Editor’s Letter : A brave new start

Dear Geeks, Welcome to the first issue of GeekDeck, a new zine/blog thingy that I’m hoping will wet your appetite for all things geek.  You may be wondering why GeekDeck was started, why it’s going to be different from every other technological zine/blog thingy out there?  (Note to self, find a better word for zine/blog [ READ MORE ]

Review : Cherry Picks of the Month

A new month has started and with it a new selection of interesting applications have caught my fancy. I’m always on the lookout for new and innovative ideas for graphical interfaces, making it a point of flipping through web sites and magazines just to see what other people are doing out there. This month’s selection [ READ MORE ]

Industry : Time is an illusion

They say time heals all wounds, they say that patience is a virtue, they say that learning the ancient art of yoga will allow you to travel through space and time.  OK so the last one may be a bit of a fib but has anyone who ever made these ridiculous claims ever worked in [ READ MORE ]

Interview : Popey the sailor man

Fighting hard against the forces of evil, Popey the sailor man travels the high seas of software hunting down pirates and cramming copies of the GNU public license down their throats till they bleed FSF.  Well…not really….Alan Pope is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met in the Free Software world.  He’s consistently been [ READ MORE ]

Gaming : Top Gaming Moments

This is a little bit odd for me.  I usually write about computing, or the open source community, or Linux, or anything Computery, if that is even a word.  Today, I’m tackling a slightly different topic; gaming.  As a prelude to another article I’m going to write, I wanted to discuss my favorite moments in [ READ MORE ]

Culture : The tale of the inaccurate TV show

As I was finishing up my last article on the almost religious nature of the IT industry, I turned my attention to thinking about the next article. Some people say I should finish up the first one before I move on, that somehow letting my concentration slip at such a crucial time in a litterary [ READ MORE ]

Feature : Summer’s here, code up!

This year I’m hoping to take part in the Google Summer of Code, hereafter referred to as GSoC for brevity and memory saving reasons.  I mentored in GSoC back in 2007 and I thought it would be nice to run a small feature on it, looking at the advantages, disadvantages, loves and losses of the [ READ MORE ]

Gaming : ‘Home’ isn’t where the heart is

Playstation Home is Sony’s somewhat delayed response to the ever increasing social networking phenomena. It’s also an attempt to attract its share of the ever expanding audience of the ‘causal gamer’. With Sony’s entry, all three of the main consoles now have their own social networking infrastructure. The Wii has the ‘lightest’ of the three [ READ MORE ]

Education : Open Source at the Cutting Edge of Science Education

So I’m not your traditional computer geek. I’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons or World of Warcraft. I’ve never even seen a single episode of Battlestar Galactica. What I am is a nerd, a science nerd. I’m a PhD Chemistry student and my research has nothing to do with computers. However, open source software does [ READ MORE ]

Review : PhotoShock Canvases

FactDeck Price : £39.99 Size : 80 x 51cm Style : Framed Res : 300 dpi Pros : Amazing quality, well made, fade resistant for 100 years Cons : You will just want to keep buying more. Never before have I been so excited about receiving a piece of art. Now I know what you [ READ MORE ]

Sign-off : The very definition of irony

Walking down the road to the shops the other day I started thinking about the differences between the Open Source movement and the proprietary model.  In recent years it really has seemed to be a battle.  The tiny, yet still significant faction of the Open Source movement, against the large corporation that is Microsoft. Funnily [ READ MORE ]

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