Category Archives: Musings

Jasmine

Posted on February 17, 2008 by stalker

I imagined myself as a bit of an earth mother and did the whole yoga and practising for a natural birth thing like the true hippy I am, albeit one with a great interest in technology. However, due to complications … Continue reading →

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User motivation: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Posted on December 5, 2007 by stalker

Last summer I found myself exploring an early Iron Age home at The Crannog Centre on Loch Tay. The Crannog was cosy, as its focal point was the Iron Age hearth – a large open fire. During the day the … Continue reading →

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Who ordered pizza?

Posted on July 27, 2007 by stalker

In the above picture a newbie gamer has organised a telephone for his Sim so that it can order pizza. Unfortunately, in the series of pictures which follows, the delivery girl arrives too late and the Grim Reaper delivers the … Continue reading →

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Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by stalker

When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates when the young girl, Lex, looks at a computer screen and says: “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.” At … Continue reading →

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Are computers making us stupid?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by stalker

In 1996, I listened to Lofty Zadeh, the daddy of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Design’ conference, Stanford University. He described the excitment of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and how Marvin Minsky, father … Continue reading →

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