Month: July 2012

  • Notes from Babylondon

    Everyone was so pleased when I announced completion of my first draft that their responses have totally crashed Twitter, apparently. Ahem. I’m no expert, but that’s looking like pretty bad news. It didn’t take long for spectacular un-graceful failure states like this to disappear behind web2.0’s equivalent of the hold music, our old friend Fail-whale.…

  • Supermassive

    Two things happen in the middle of big projects, I’ve noticed. One of them is the mid-project motivational slump: that period where you hate the project, can’t see any point in completing the project other than to demostrate your incompetence and hubris to the world at large, and can’t imagine why you chose to start…