The Plashing Vole

Well what a shock: students don't want to be taught by computers! Universities have been warned not to assume that “digital native” st...

I suspect that, like the aeroplane makers I mentioned earlier, this is an all-male preserve. A man has taken an obsolete computer running on...

Very happily for all concerned, I don't know who he is (definitely not someone I teach), but he's a bit careless with his computer s...

I read an entertaining piece of journalism today which declares that video-gaming is educational, because it involves problem-solving, pati...

They dealt with bankers ruining us very differently in Lovelace and Babbage's day (the former was the first computer programmer, the la...

What's cool? A Canadian woman's ongoing steampunk comic of Babbage and Ada Lovelace , early Victorian inventors of computing and cri...

The godless, heathens and heretics (I'm looking at you, Left Behind ) have had the gaming world to themselves for too long. It's tim...

I see that a discarded computer contained details of a nuclear missile defence system and its workers. The only second-hand computer I ever...