Matthew

Matthew

  • Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
    I'm sure many other readers will have seen the recent Russell T Davies drama Years and Years, which was rather dark in tone, and explored a near future that got incrementally worse. It's actually quite an achievement that considering the...
  • Commented on The Pivot
    It's also worth noting that the Express was bought by Trinity Mirror earlier this year, and the new editor has publicly described some of their past headlines as downright offensive. A number of other members of staff also left, so...
  • Commented on Writer, Interrupted
    I've been a web developer for some years now, so I'm very familiar with this, but before that I was a complaint handler for an insurer and the same thing happened there. Handling complex complaints can be surprisingly like debugging...
  • Commented on Constitutional crisis ahoy!
    I'd bet good money that a lot of Leave voters are at least somewhat royalist, and so might be more accepting than you'd think if the Queen did veto it. Not that it wouldn't cause a political shitstorm of epic...
  • Commented on Nom de Teleport
    I always liked the idea of calling them a "telegate", although that only makes sense if it's implemented in a way you can step through....
  • Commented on Aftermath
    I can at least take some comfort in the fact that Mark Reckless lost his seat and it's just been confirmed that Nigel Farage lost in Thanet South, and with only a few seats left to declare it looks like...
  • Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
    I agreee entirely with this sentiment. Nowadays, any time I want to write any kind of document, I do so in Markdown. It's simple, easy to use, and it's plain text so I can use Vim to edit it, and...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
    Charlie, Something I've wanted to know since I read The Apocalypse Codex - was the tongue-eating parasite based on Cymothoa exigua? The images of them in fish's mouths are pretty unsettling, and I can easily imagine seeing that somewhere and...
  • Commented on Deeply annoying realization ...
    The setting of Palimpsest seemed to me very reminiscent of Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Was that an inspiration when writing it?...
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    The argument in favour of retaining a nuclear deterrent that I've heard bandied around most is that it lets the UK retain its permanent seat on the UN Security Council despite a shrinking influence on global politics as nations like...
  • Commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
    I have to say, the UK cover bears a more than passing resemblance to the Leviathans in Mass Effect 3....
  • Commented on How I feel this morning
    I've looked at a couple of other web-based services and they all seem OK, but there's now the nagging feeling that anything I choose may also go the way of the dodo. Ideally I want something I can get at...
  • Commented on Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony
    It seems to me that the way to deal with these kinds of spammy automated calls is to use automation at the receiving end. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard Asterisk can be run on something as low-powered...
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