[caption id="attachment_158" align="alignright" width="317" caption="Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows the future of reading, and, according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, the future of censorship"][/caption] I'm not one for thinking that we in the west are teetering on the edge of a police ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_151" align="alignright" width="318" caption="Not quite the North Sea view, but a trip along Loch Leven and its farmland showed off the beautiful northern sky"][/caption] I have recently returned from my annual trip to Scotland to visit my friends up in ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_137" align="alignright" width="315" caption="Major Havelock overlooks Trafalgar Square beneath the summer sun"][/caption] I began an entry this time last week. I had just been to see Flow, a fantastic visual asset management tool from Canadian firm Gridiron. To summarise, it ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="318" caption="ScrollMotion hopes to be the iTunes of books for Apple's latest iPhone"][/caption] One of these days I'll get my hands on a Kindle or a Sony e-Reader and figure out whether they really are the future, or ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="309" caption="Governor Schwarzenegger says scrap paper, adopt e-readers for state students"][/caption] Not a lot of time just at the moment. But, I've just read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, (or Kellifwahnya, as he says) wants to get ...Read More
You can never look back, say all the admirable people. They say, “I don’t do nostalgia”, or, “I only think about the future, not the past”, or, “I look ahead, not backwards”. Me, I’m constantly dredging up the past. How can ...Read More
This is terribly unscientific and off the cuff, but I've been writing about restaurants and discount offers recently. As I'm pulling to the end, I was thinking about some of the comments made by some of the experts and soothsayer ...Read More
It’s another sunny day in London and we city folk are milling about slightly happier than we were a few months back, when it was cold and oppressive, and we were waiting for the bump at the bottom of the ...Read More
What is it to be a 'writer'? I've placed the word in inverted commas, because, I suppose, I wanted to pull the word out, really look at it. Writer. I get asked, 'so what do you do?' Invariably I say ...Read More
And here it begins. Again. This isn’t the first blog I’ve written; in fact, it’s really an update to one I began back in February this year. But I thought I should raise my game, really get down to serious ...Read More