In addition to the frustrating lack of reliability of Company of Heroes as a software product, I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with some aspects of the gameplay itself. One aspect in particular is the behaviour of units. When you give an order to units in that game, they ostensibly follow it. But oftentimes they don’t, for… Read more
The age-old sore point of Mac gaming has been performance. Ports from Windows versions would often run significantly slower for no apparent reason. Interestingly, this seems to be less of an issue as of the last couple of years – whether because the games are being optimised better or Mac hardware is just better able… Read more
I installed the “WP Retina 2x” plug-in, excited to use and abuse my iPad 3’s extra pixels (and those of any future Retina Macs I might acquire). Unfortunately, two hours later, while it’s mostly working it’s basically requiring too much manual fixing to be viable. The first problem was that it uses the PHP variable… Read more
I like Aperture so far, mostly. I’ve even managed to memorise a significant fraction of its obscure keyboard shortcuts and combos. Enough to get around it and make it appear I have some idea what I’m doing. Unfortunately, Aperture relies on Mac OS X’s built-in RAW support (as does every other imaging app, which is… Read more
While we were camping I wanted to try some star photography. I had borrowed Chris’s tripod specially for the occasion, so I was all excited and set to go. I hadn’t initially thought of doing any astronomical work with the camera, but I chanced upon a discussion of it, with some example images from old… Read more
You know you’re old when you have aches mostly all over, and you want a higher chair and one of those desks with a under-hung keyboard tray. Ugh. That and voice dictation that actually works. Siri, I love you, but you suck.
For a few months now I’ve been eyeing off DSLRs. I’m not sure, now, what triggered it… I think just a couple of events, like Jen & Vante’s wedding, where I wanted for a better camera than my little Sony DSC-TX10. While it’s a great little camera, and was totally worth having for Hawaii alone,… Read more