July 23rd, 2012
My Mum thinks I design web sites. Which is admittedly better than my Dad, who I think still tells people I’m a journalist. What’s true is that I’m both, and neither. As I don’t wish to risk an entry in Pseud’s Corner I’ll put things in simple terms (which, as it happens, is one of my [...]
June 29th, 2011
You can’t fault their tenacity. Or their ambition. Because it’s becoming clear that Google’s going to keep coming up with new social media products until one of them sticks, finally, like well-cooked spaghetti to a virtual wall. The search giant’s latest foray into the world of social is Google+, which is not to be confused [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 26th, 2010
I often get asked advice on software and web apps I use to make my life easier and more productive. And occasionally more fun. Although I use Apple Macs, everything below is also available for Windows and, in the case of web apps, completely agnostic when it comes to operating system. Back-up: Dropbox Our lives [...]
August 9th, 2010
Test testy test test
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 [...]