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Category: Blog

My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.

Blog Life!

Genuine wrinkle cream that really works

ward 19/05/2016

Anyone who has not seen this site before will now assume that I am a spammer thanks to a headline about wrinkle cream. I’m sure you have all seen those … Read More

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Flyboard Air – a real hoverboard

ward 19/04/2016

The Flyboard Air looks like fun over a lake, I wonder if it could make it over the channel…

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4 minute video of Space X launches is damned inspiring

ward 16/04/2016

(Feel free to skip my rant and just see the clip at the bottom. I apologise in advance.) I’m not going to tiptoe around this – we should go into … Read More

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iPad Pro review for writers

ward 05/04/2016

I have had my beloved iPad Pro for about 4 months now. I always said when I got the iPad 1 that I couldn’t wait until they brought out a … Read More

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Eggstatic – stroboscopic Easter Egg patterns

ward 28/03/2016

I would have loved a day off designing complicated devices and designs for eggs. These are really cool. I can sum up with: Eggs + computing skills + robot + camera/strobe + imagination = cool Easter eggs.

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Loving Vincent

ward 16/03/2016

Loving Vincent is a project that was begun by Hugh Welchman, the Oscar winning animator of Peter and the Wolf in 2006. He saw the Royal Academy’s van Gogh show in 2010 and decided he really needed a ridiculously long and involved project to sink his teeth into.

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Stretchable electronics

ward 09/03/2016

Some very clever people have been doing some very clever things with liquid metal and plastics/polymers/general stretchy stuff. Or something. The result of this cleverness is electronics that can be … Read More

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I am now swapping Scrivener for Ulysses

ward 26/02/2016

I am now plotting away on Ulysses and it has been great. It looks and works great on the iPad too. It is a lot simpler that Scrivener but I was never that into doing complicated anyway.

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Our Solar System is a vortex

ward 16/02/2016

Although I knew the solar system was flying around the super black hole at the middle of the galaxy (which is itself on the move), I never really envisage that movement.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

ward 09/02/2016

Happy Chinese New Year from everyone here at the Word of Ward offices. I was born in Hong Kong and spent 21 years there so I will use the Cantonese version – Gung Hey Fat Choy!

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Far Cry 4 review

ward 04/02/2016

Far Cry 4 is a colossal sandbox adventure in the fictional kingdom of Kyrat. It is a gorgeous but deadly little place.

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Temple of Art

ward 25/01/2016

The Temple of Art is a documentary (and website) about what it is like to be an artist. Although not just an artist, just generally creative. There are lots of writers, musicians, directors and actors, etc, featured, and the end result is damned inspiring.

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Cooperworld – a short story

ward 12/01/2016

Cooperworld is a 17,000 word short story that looks at the nature of intelligence and consciousness and how meaningless those terms might be.

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Happy New Year!

ward 03/01/2016

Happy bloody New Year! I hope it is going well for you so far and that you haven’t already failed miserably at keeping your resolutions.

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Merry Christmas

ward 26/12/2015

Merry Christmas from all of us here at the Word of Ward! (i.e. me.)

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Ford tells Trump: It was a movie

ward 13/12/2015

Harrison Ford tells Donald Trump: “It was a movie” when hearing Trump praising his Presidential role in Air Force One.

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Adele’s Hello by the Movies

ward 06/12/2015

A man called Matthijs Vlot has taken Adele’s Hello and remade it with movies because… well no one else has. Enjoy.

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Amazing image of the Earth and the Moon

ward 02/12/2015

When the Japanese satellite Hayabusa 2 took a photo on its way to some asteroid or other, it took a photo of Earth and the Moon from 3 million km / 1.9 million miles away.

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Map of musicians from each London borough

ward 17/11/2015

A map of musicians showing where in London they came from. Mostly.

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Meteors over Bangkok

ward 03/11/2015

Apparently we are in the midst of the Taurid meteor shower and this is a good ‘un. There are supposed to be more meteors and I’m now glued to the skies.

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