Archive For The “Technology” Category
I’ve put off writing this post in the aftermath of the rioting, partly because I’m keenly aware that ranting about politics is not what this blog was originally set up to do, partly because I suspected in my cynical and road weary fashion that we’d get a bunch of soundbytes from Prime Minister Cameron asserting [...]
I’m reasonably sure, despite various comments from parents, colleagues and partners that I don’t feature on the autistic spectrum of behaviour – well, no more than the next geek anyway. I will confess to taking an interest in how I interact on the social web though, spurred on by a couple of sites I have [...]
From politics to photography; a necessary leap if I am to bring my blood pressure under control… I’m not usually given to enthusing about bags. Indeed the subject bores me rigid, but facing the prospect of a holiday in the sun and realising that even after severe rationalisation, I have outgrown my handy camera bag, [...]
Combobulate – to bring something out of a state of confusion or disarray. Cloud computing is a game changing innovation that will change the way we think of computers for ever. Unusually for game changing plays, this one is the product of incremental innovations delivered over a period of several years. Service Oriented Architecture, Virtualisation [...]
Like an irritating, hyperactive teenager, Rockmelt will not be ignored. Alerts from Facebook, Twitter and a host of rss feeds allow this browser to barge into your consciousness at will. Is this progress or a recipe for a nervous breakdown? It’s taken a while for the browser landscape to settle down. Internet Explorer, cumbersome, slow [...]
In an unusual flash of foresight, I have made a decision that may well save my life this Christmas. I see now that my choice of a Sony PS3 as a principle gift for my girlfriend, even with the addition of Gran Turismo 5 and FIFA 11 may leave me open to accusations of insensitivity, [...]
Channel 4 commissions grown up TV shock! Once a bastion of intelligent documentary making, recent offerings have failed to engage the audience in any kind of discourse. It has even seemed at times as though the ground rules of observational documentary making were being jettisoned in favour of the kind of jeopardy obsessed nonsense served [...]
I’ve been getting calls, sometimes four or five a day, from the number 00420239011111, sometimes 001420239011111. The phone rings three times then stops, just before the answering service kicks in. Now, I make a habit of not responding to numbers I don’t recognise on my personal mobile so no harm was done, but these calls [...]
There comes a time when resistance is futile, and when that time comes, the smart operator holds his or her hands up and admits it. Now, I’ve always been a PC user and Android is my preferred platform for mobile phone, but in the iPad, Apple have produced a gadget that has my attention. Derided [...]
Keith’s mum says if she wants Tweets she’ll feed the budgie, but that’s another story. It was clunky, slow and in the end HTC couldn’t be bothered to maintain it when Twitter remodelled their authentication module. Quite why this was allowed to happen when HTC are positioning themselves and the Android platform as a serious [...]
