Monthly Archives: September 2007

Nazi Chic?

Swastik

It’s good to see cultural ignorance is alive and well in the UK. Several years after running into the same problem with a game I built for Ladbrokes, it seems people still believe the swastik symbol must be Nazi iconography … Continue reading

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Who Watches The Watchmen?

Echelon in the UK

It turns out that Echelon, the secret eavesdropping spy network, does exist after all. Billions of pounds spent on listening to people chat about their day at work and what they’ll have for dinner – not a waste of money … Continue reading

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A load of garbage collection

I recently had the pleasure of debugging an AS3 image viewer application that was crashing after an hour. It seemed to be some kind of memory leak, so I looked for objects not being cleared up by the Flash Player's … Continue reading

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