Jasp's Blog

I first saw the Google Wave videos a few months ago, shortly after Google first announced the product.

It looked quite exciting, although admittedly it wasn’t something I was entirely sure exactly how I’d end up using. The simple benefit of a communication system which fused E-mail and chat was obvious, especially when it was [...]

I first played around with the political compass a few years ago, and was vaguely worried that I may have betrayed my old self, and have darted to the far right without quite realising it. As it happens I haven’t, and indeed I think the score is somewhat more extreme in the other direction than [...]

One of the benefits of using an extremely popular blogging platform, such as Wordpress is the diverse range of plugins available. This allows for the easy addition of new features to a blog, and the latest versions of Wordpress provide excellent tools to make it easy to install plugins and keep them updated. In this [...]

Good old games is a games download service that allows gamers to buy older titles, especially those which may be a bit difficult to find without trawling the depths of eBay. Like all the best download services, its titles are free of DRM, which means that they aren’t suddenly going to break on you should [...]

From the Moral Foundations test:
Harm: 3.5
Fairness: 4.1
Loyalty: 1.1
Authority: 0.6
Purity: 0.3
http://www.yourmorals.org/
Its a bit odd as my ideals are completely at odds with my personality. The figures here would suggest that I was a hedonistic and rebellious person, when I am nothing of the sort. (As anyone who knows me well would attest, although I’m fully expecting [...]

I’ve always been attracted by MOO, the flickr buisness card company, but have never had the need for buisness cards. While they are designed for personal use, I would feel slightly self concious handing out a mini-card, even if they are as sexy as the ones MOO make. I’m sure I could find some other [...]

FT.com / World / Europe – Germany to crack down on violent video games
Virtual hit men in Europe’s largest video games market could soon find themselves behind real bars if German regional politicians have their way.
Under new legislation drawn up in reaction to a shooting at a school last month, developers, retailers and players [...]

This paragrahps, taken from the wikipedia entry on ‘evil genius’ sums up why I love the site:
The evil genius is different from the mad scientist, in that the mad scientist tends to be amoral, rather than evil. An Evil Genius is generally a clever schemer, while the Mad Scientist typically pursues scientific knowledge with no [...]

Win a Flat
I’m currently having to think about where I’ll be living next year as my lease runs out soon and the plan is to move off elsewhere. So earlier this evening I was searching around and getting a feel for what was availible. A few sites seem ideal and I shall probably be putting [...]

To put it simply I want one of these. I’ve wanted an eBook reader for a while, as I get terrible guilt trips every time I print off the twenty odd pages associated with a PDF file. (Research papers are distributed in PDF format.) Unfortunately, Sony’s prior effort, the Libre, was so wrapped up in [...]