Yesterday I returned to the UK after my trip to San Francisco was extended by a week due to this Icelandic volcano business. It still feels a bit science fiction to be talking of global disruption due to a volcano, and all this talk of repatriation feels similarly odd. One minute I’m on a business [...]
The 1980s were a great time to grow up if you had even the slightest interest in science and technology. On terrestrial TV we had amazing shows such as Tomorrow’s World, which managed to perfectly package the latest advances in science and technology for consumption by the average person in the street, or child even, [...]
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain“, said Mark Twain, and I couldn’t agree more. No, I’ve never had much love for banks. They are the cornerstones of our increasingly unfathomable economic system, upon which we are [...]
This post is dedicated to Andrew Keen.
It serves no higher purpose – this is not required.
It was authored by someone who lacks an education in journalism, writing or research – this is not necessary.
It harbours no ill feeling toward culture of any sort.
You don’t have to read it – this is not mandatory.
If you do [...]
Cleaning up my inbox I came across a message sent last October by Roger Pugh to the Classic Computing mailing list titled I’ve gone too far:
“This morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a door
to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it falls out !!!”
Amazing. And now I don’t [...]
As I woke this morning to the dulcet tones of builders clambering around on the roof of the tenement block I wondered what delights might lay in store. Their impressive scaffolding which has been with us since way before Christmas appears to have blocked access for the refuse people, so we have been without service [...]
It hasn’t taken me long to arrive at the opinion that upgrading to OS X Leopard (10.5) was a bad idea. This wasn’t something that came about through a desire to be one of the first kids on the block to use Apple’s latest installment of shiny operating system goodness. But rather due the fact [...]
It is with some sadness that I write this post as I make the return trip to Scotland. As today is my first journey on the UK East Coast Mainline with National Express as operator. I’d heard some time ago that GNER had lost the franchise for the route, but had been trying to pretend [...]
I like trains. No, really I do. And I guess it’s no secret since I volunteer in the locomotive engineering department at a preserved steam railway when I can. But this post is not about nostalgia or a love of engineering.
So over the last few months I’ve been spending a lot of time traveling between [...]
So after the BT Open Source event and PSD’s poster having been online for less than a day, I was told it had thus far enjoyed 11,000 views on Flickr. This statement was then quickly corrected after checking once again with “oh, wow, now it’s at 14,500″. At the time of writing this [...]