Computing

Animation

24th February 2020 Going Postal 0

Ages ago I figured out what to do if you wanted to cut two video scenes together and have them moving at the same pace. I thought you could do some bit of film where [more…]

Something’s Wrong With The FFRC – Episode 1

20th February 2020 Going Postal 0

The following short video is a fictional account of an imaginary craft and crew searching the far reaches of cyberspace. All characters are the result of a very sick mind and any familiarity to persons [more…]

No Industry Is Safe From The Identity Police

18th February 2020 Going Postal 0

Diversity in gaming: Industry promises to improve Identity politics has stuck its grubby paws into every cookie jar so it was no surprise when I read an article the other day decrying the lack of [more…]

Disintermediation

9th February 2020 1642again 0

My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]

Wankpuffin’s 2019 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular

25th December 2019 Going Postal 0

Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. We couldn’t use all of them, due to lack of time and talent (see grovelling apology in the credits). They will be used in the next [more…]

El Cnutador’s Auto Responsive Seeing Eye

16th December 2019 El Cnutador 0

Introduction I have always been interested in image processing since my Computer Science and subsequent employment in document management systems. For my final year project, I failed in the ultimate aim simply because back then [more…]

Interest Calculation

25th November 2019 well_chuffed 0

Swiss Bob’s favourite place of work – not actually in the main building, we were fortunate to be about 50m away where we couldn’t be seen staggering back from 2-4 hour lunches This is going [more…]

The Last Hurrah for ‘Global Warming’?

16th October 2019 Going Postal 0

One of the areas in which the UK has lost control during its membership of the EU is that of being able to respond to the climate change agenda. True, both the UK and the [more…]

Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks

8th April 2019 Katabasis 0

We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]