JEF RASKIN, who died recently aged 61, was best known for his early work on the Apple Macintosh computer, but he had a wide variety of interests including art and music, as well as an independent streak. We have just come across his account of how he left his faculty post at the University of California, San Diego. He wrote: “When I resigned I got into a hot air balloon in the middle of Revelle Plaza and flew over the Chancellor’s residence playing my sopranino recorder so that he would hear the sound. He came out and I yelled down that I was resigning and floated off. I was an art professor at the time and it seemed arty to leave that way.”

Makes my resignation from SI seem utterly boring in comparison…

You can now play the hitchhikers text adventure online.

I had no idea. Bang goes my life again…

With all the frenzy surrounding the new film, I enjoyed reading this interview with the guy who worked on the Infocom adventure game with Douglas. Brought back happy memories, and made me wonder where my Amstrad version got to!

As the Guardian reports, my old boss Stephen Heppell has been appointed director of the new e-learning research centre at the National College of Ireland in Dublin.

Nice one Stephen!

I came across this on the Puckman site - made me laugh:

Clubbing anyone?

Computer games do not affect kids! If puckman had affected us as kids then we would now be running around in darkened rooms dancing to repetitive music and munching pills.