While using Wikipedia to research “Montréal”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal and the surrounding area, I came across this image of a “New Hampshire”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire “numberplate.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CurrentNewHampshirePlate.jpg I wouldn’t die for freedom, myself; under dire oppression, I’d rather bide my time looking for a way to put my life and liberty together. Yet I have always loved this American revolutionary slogan, and [...]
Last night I changed my blog header image. Since I’m thinking of moving to Vancouver, I wanted an image of the skyline. I was planning on using Doug Morgan’s wonderful “Twilight Over False Creek,”:http://www.pbase.com/douglasjmorgan/image/36508393/original which I’d recently seen on the Wikipedia article for “Vancouver.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver When I went to check on the license for it, though, [...]
I implore the maintainers of event- and opportunity-related email lists to use RSS instead. Get a free blog at “Blogger”:http://www.blogger.com or “WordPress.com”:http://www.wordpress.com, post your notices there, and let the interested subscribe to or unsubscribe from the feed as they like. Keep the email lists for the RSS-illiterate if you must, but let the tech-savvy turf [...]
Around five months ago, I left Australia for Japan. I never intended to live permanently in Australia again. Ever since I was a child, I was always disappointed by my country. I lived most of my childhood immersed in books, which are still, for me, the most important objects in the world. It disappointed me [...]
A recent article on the commercial failure of the Xbox in Japan, to which I contributed some comments, has been syndicated from The Christian Science Monitor to USA Today. Read it again, if you like, or “refer to my earlier post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/ about its first appearance in the Monitor. The article also contains some comments by [...]
January is more than halfway through now, so this is, as entries here so often are, a little late. But there’s been plenty of activity this year, the first of benhourigan.com, so it’s time to review 2005. Progress I started this blog on 18 January 2005. Subsequently, during the summer holidays (in which I was [...]
I’ve just finished watching “Steve Jobs’ keynote” from Macworld San Francisco 2006. I’m about to give you my personal impressions, from the perspective of this one, particular Mac user. I own a 2004 Powerbook G4 1.5ghz, 15″, and I use it for the following things: Writing my PhD thesis, and dabbling in fiction. Blogging Reading [...]
Today the “Christian Science Monitor”:http://www.csmonitor.com has “an article about the failure of the Xbox in Japan.”:http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/p04s01-woap.html There’s some comments there by me, on Japanese tastes and the centrality of the RPG genre to console success there. “Gonzalo Frasca”:http://www.ludology.org also contributed his words to the piece. Despite the Xbox’s apparent failure, Microsoft bq. “were able to [...]
Thanks to “Joystiq”:http://www.joystiq.org, it’s just come to my attention that some of my favourite comedians from Melbourne, “Tripod”:http://www.3pod.com.au/podhome/, are videogamers! Tripod are, rather than stand-up comedians, a band that sings comic songs. In the past, I’ve been a fan of such gems as the “Xmas Song” and the “Ikea song”. I also had the great [...]
Ever wanted to convert a PDF to HTML, but didn’t feel like paying for a converter utility? Well, cast aside those thoughts of giving up your cash, because “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com may have the answer… If you have a “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com account, you can follow these simple steps: Mail a PDF to your Gmail address. View the email [...]
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Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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