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Touch Screen Haters Club

Touch Screen Haters Club published on 11 Comments on Touch Screen Haters Club

The future of computing is touch screen technology.

It is a fantastic interface, which offers intuitive navigation, instant interaction and the ability to present experiences in a manner we have never been able to do before.
Soon, everything will have a touch based navigation to it.

This is great news for most of us. Those of us, that is,who have the ability togenerate the touch pressure & bio-electric conduction required to make touchscreens work.
But spare a thought for those who will be unable to use the new technological marvels we are sure to be presented with soon.

The unlucky include:
– aliens who control things just with their minds
– characters with spikes for fingers
– monsters with huge sharp claws
– most hooved animals
– robots with caliper hands
– zombies (but only because they are too dumb)
– dinosaurs

So next time you buy a touch screen device, just think about all these things that won’t be able to enjoy it.

Killeroo

Killeroo published on

It has been a very big week so far. I have had to move everything over to a new laptop, which has taken far more time than it should.
The transfer has had the unfortunate side effect of delaying the comic for this week as well. (Also, I am slack).

In the meantime, I did this little sketch of Killeroo for you to enjoy.
If you do not know who Killeroo is, then checkout this brief character summary.

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The Interview

The Interview published on 3 Comments on The Interview

The world of computing and social media gives us so many more opportunities to lie about our job experience.

The average person has so many tools of communication and creation at their disposal these days, that it can help wily job seekers to beef up their work histories like never before.
Suddenly, we can all have experience in networking, direct marketing, community management and website design without ever having gained a single proper qualification in it.

Many employers are possibly still on the backfoot regarding knowing what questions to ask applicants, and how to spot the pretenders.

But there is also a grey area to consider, as some activities that we simply could not easily do 5 or 10 years ago, have been made extremely simple and affordable. This does mean that more people are getting skills far beyond what they should be able to, for their age.

I don’t see this as a bad thing, but it certainly is something to be wary of.
After all, I bet all of you know at least one person that is a “Social Media Marketing Guru”

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