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Skyrim

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I bought it for the houseguests over Christmas, got mildly hooked, took a character to level 17, but that’s it, I’m bored....

Grey and Red

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
The grey is one of Vancouver’s rare snowy evenings. The red is the new illuminated circumference of BC Place, our venue for football and big-name rockers...

Not Piracy

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Sites all over the Internet are going dark to show that they object to legislation currently before the US Congress. I’m not American but these words...

HttpURLConnection’s Dark Secrets

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
If you’re programming in the Java language and want to talk to a Web server, there are several libraries you can choose from. HttpURLConnection is one...

Cirque Does MJ

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
The full name of Cirque du Soleil’s new show is Michael Jackson Immortal; Google took me and somewhere between ten and twenty thousand other employees off...

Browser Sedimentation

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I wanted to hit my browser’s “home” button and for a baffling moment couldn’t find it. This remains a rare experience, but I found it a worrying symptom...

Size Still Matters

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I have to carry two phones; one for G-stuff, which is often unreleased software running on unreleased hardware, and another for my personal life. For the...

Chinese Workers’ Problems

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
This New York Times story, telling ugly stories of human suffering at Chinese outsourcers, isn’t about Apple. It’s pure politics and economics....

Street

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Over on Google+, there are a lot of photographers. I mean, really a lot. And not just nerd-with-an-OK-camera dabblers like me; we’re talking pros, big-name...

Channel Choices

4 months ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
When I have something work-related to tell the world, I have a lot of choices: This blog, @timbray, +Tim Bray, or (work-related, remember), the Android...