Software development. Tech punditry. Retro gaming.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regulates advertising on social media, including Facebook – their guidelines require businesses to make true and accurate claims, and to be able to prove them. Facebook claim to have advertising standards and to follow them. In fact, here is what they say on Fraud, Scams and Deceptive Practices:
If you regularly use Facebook you will know it is full of scam and fraudulent advertising.…
Chocolate means a lot to me. I always have chocolate in the cupboard, I make chocolate cakes, I eat chocolate ice cream, I drink chocolate, I have been paid in chocolate for some projects. Chocolate is life. So it may not surprise you to learn I sometimes have ideas about chocolate.
I talked about one of these ideas in a previous post, and here is another.…
Those who know me know that I am a big fan of chocolate. There is always chocolate in the cupboard at home, I drink hot chocolates at cafes, my friends give me chocolates as gifts, and I’ve even been paid in chocolate for certain projects in the past. I think about chocolate a lot.
So perhaps it isn’t a huge surprise that I might have some ideas for new chocolate products, even if I’m known more for my love of computers and mathematics.…
The Game & Watch is a series of handheld electronic games developed by Nintendo in the 1980s. The first, Ball, was introduced in 1980, and the last original Game & Watch was Mario the Juggler in 1991. These handheld games were a big hit in the 1980s and were popular all around the globe.
In 2020 Nintendo surprised the world with a new Game & Watch – Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.…
Thinking back to high school you may remember being taught about pi and using it in maths classes to calculate perimeters and areas of circles. You may remember being told a good approximation of pi is 3.14, or 22/7. But you may also recall that pi is irrational (meaning, in maths, that it cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers; basically, writing it out, it goes on forever; there are even books you can buy listing pi to a million decimal places).…
News of the day is that a new Atari 2600 prototype game has been found. It is being referred to as Fish (that was the filename) and little is known about its origins apart from the fact it was created in 1983 and never released. You can read all about the discovery at AtariProtos.com.
Here’s a video of the game in action.…