X-number of millions of words later, it was time to retire my old faithful Dell keyboard. Ten years is the longest time I’ve gone between major computer upgrades. Back in 2010, my old computer ...
Sometimes I wonder why I still own a phone. You know, one of those landlines that plugs into the wall and only ever rings for wrong numbers, telemarketers and old people. I’d chuck it, but it�...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2015/02/01/you-never-call-you-never-write/
Is there anything technology can’t fuck up? If there is, wait five minutes. Someone will come up with an app for that. There have been a couple of articles about the lost art of reading that ha...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2014/09/09/lets-ruin-reading-for-everyone/
Much as I enjoy gaming, these days I’ve been spending far too many hours writing to get in any serious play time. Oh sure, I’ve nipped off for a heartbreaking permadeath or two in Don’t Sta...
I don’t like Apple. It’s not just their slave-labour policies that drive factories full of Chinese workers to suicide, their ongoing efforts to get every man, woman and child on the planet to...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2014/07/02/the-worm-in-the-apple/
I had a test tube of urine sitting on my desk all weekend. No, I haven’t taken to drinking my own piss as a means of self-cleansing. I drink so much coffee, it would probably just taste like Co...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2014/02/17/a-pot-to-piss-in/
Still feeling a touch snotty and feverish from a recent head cold, I decided to stay in and finish off my game of Batman: Arkham Origins – a title, already mentioned here, suffering from a bad ...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2013/11/09/arkham-addendum/
Just when you thought the mainstream news media couldn’t get any more lame, Fox News ups the ante with something that might even trump CNN’s abortive use of hologram reporting. Seriously, hol...
https://eyestrainproductions.com/2013/11/02/holy-giant-props-batman/
Welcome to the new, and hopefully improved, eyestrainproductions.com – now powered by WordPress, which I understand is an improvement over what I had before because it’s software that’s sti...
The stagnation of this blog and website has been the source of no small amount of irritation on the part of friends and fans, and a heaping dose of embarrassment on my end. My previously mentione...