Posts Tagged ‘MSN’

Are we ever truly unreachable?

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

How many ways can you contact a single individual? Off the top of my head, I can contact most of my friends via their… home phone, office phone, mobile phone, Skype phone (and chat), text, MSN/AIM etc, Facebook chat, Facebook email, ‘normal’ email, LinkedIn email and, of course, by knocking on their door.

So is it any wonder that, in this day and age we almost demand immediate response to our questions and queries?
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Snow v Technology

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Unless you’ve not looked out of a window for the past two weeks, you can’t have failed to notice that the UK is in the midst of the worst snow and ice to hit the island for almost 30 years.

(You could of course also be from another country, so welcome to our little corner of digital Britain).

I remember the winter of 1981 extremely-well because that December in the middle of the peak of the worst weather, my family and I moved house, into a nice new home at the top of a rather steep hill.
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One IM to rule them all?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The theory was simple. The Internet would break down the barriers of communication and bring us all closer. It would bridge geographical divides and create a homogenous planet Earth where everybody was one single click away.

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