![]() Recast to serve and suit the immediate needs of the present. The lossiness and decay of a technological history forever being discarded or Patches, and upgrades, leading to flickers of uncertainty, bewilderment, and distrust Selective histories of problems soon glossed over with rewritten api's, releases, Reading, learning from, and trying to believe ever-changing documentation, of ![]() Had Our Eric experienced computing - the visceral dread of With the advent of totalitarianismĪnd the rewriting of history to which any victor has, by might, earned I cannot consider this a coincidence, but perhaps my jaundiced view has something to do with the burnt-out car someone left in front of my house. He later envisioned the chilling urban dystopia ofġ984. Is, believe it or not, a still from the cartoon adaptation of Animal Farm - of pigs, serenely gazing upward.Įric Blair lived, for a while, in Hayes. My local is The Famous George Orwell, and its pub sign ![]() The distressed font deliberately invokes both a typed manuscript and decay despite use of technology.Įxposition: I'm living in Hayes. It is both a valid computing statement (increment the variable called 'ungood' by one the silent semicolon terminates the programming command, which can be seen running in the script on this webpage) and a reference to the term doubleplusungood from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four. Double-plus ungood - the birth of an Orwellian black shirtĮxegesis: ++ungood is a pun for programmers. ![]()
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