March 11th, 2011
Like most people, I woke up this morning to the news of the devastating earthquake that’s hit North-east Japan. I was in the car for an hour listening to the drama unfold on Radio 5Live, and every time my car stopped in the rush hour traffic I hit refresh on Facebook, quickly checked Skype and [...]
November 3rd, 2010
So I’ve spent the entire day in front of a computer. And I’ll probably spend a great deal of this evening in front of a computer too. From writing emails, to the usual Facebooking, writing this blog (as you can see) and, at some point, chatting to the other half (we’re not odd – well, [...]
October 11th, 2010
There’s a map, well-known in geek circles, that shows “where” we all live online. Recognising that our physical geography isn’t quite as relevant as it once was, it lists our homes on the web. Drawn by Randall Munroe of web cartoon XKCD, the original was done in 2007 and, looking at it now, it looks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Ah, the 90s: such halycon, care-free, simplistic times. I miss them. What we’ve ended up with in reality is [...]