July 2009
15 posts
Augmentation →
My love for, and excitement about, augmented reality apps keeps getting bigger. Here read/write web draw up a wishlist of augmented apps for the iPhone OS update expected in September that will enable the new technology. What excites me even more is the idea of plugging this into your glasses. Come on, we really can’t be that far away. That idea is just unfeasibly, salivatingly, dream...
Literary Fiction
Not in the mood at all for literary fiction or any kind of ornament or frivolity I pick up the proof of the latest Lorrie Moore with trepidation and despair: arch literary, arch boredom and irrelevance.
I am so ready to resent and dislike this novel on so many levels. I want to hate it.
So I start. With every word I was so looking for a fault and a note of discord.
Have I been proved wrong. It...
Tube Exits →
On the back of the last tube app, this one doesn’t quite fulfil the future fantasy. However what it does do is what I do every time I get on the Tube, in a slightly strange way: possibly geeky way e.g. analyse the exact optimum point to enter the Tube to maximise efficient exit or interchange at the other end. I challenge anyone who lives in London to say they have not, at some point done...
Spezify →
Via smcdoyle. Cuil thought it was, er, cool with its spread out search display. Bing thought it was, er, bling for fully incorporating multimedia. (I’ll stop now.) Spezify does both. Ok, so it will no doubt end up as one of the countless innovative and interesting search engines occaisionally billed as Google killers in the more lonely, search-intropsective corners of the web, sometimes even...
My Daytum →
A while ago you may, or may not, remember that I was keeping a record of everything I read, but then stopped. Suffocated by the weight of my own expectations reading because too much of a chore in notching up another quick win on the read pile.
About a month ago I first hada play with Daytum, and decided that the whole life tracking thing was navel gaze too far. However never one to let...