Messages from the home front

SMS from my flatmate mr_magicfingers: "All the DVDs in the world just arrived."

That'll be the entire Star Trek TNG then. And the entire Star Trek DS9.

I really should stop visiting play.com :)

Geeks and the Beeb Micro

David Braben (co-creator of the game Elite) uses the new BBC Micro exhibition at the Science Museum as an excuse to rant about how being geeky used to be fashionable in the early 80s, and how this affected our technical industries. I'm not entirely sure he's right*, but anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7305699.stm

* although, contrast the heroes of Hackers with the hero of Wargames