I am aware of that argument. It’s the one everyone makes when you do a search for “add extra RAM slots to motherboard” on Google. And it’s fair enough. But – where else do these things go? Landfill. That’s where. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. THINK OF THE POLAR BEARS! Also, … Continue reading
Just took delivery of a new Mac… And while I download Mountain Lion, I’m thinking about the apps I always install on a fresh machine. Increasingly, much of the work I do is in the cloud. In Google Docs, Gmail, Remember the Milk, Trello, Prezi, SoundCloud, Storify, WordPress and Balsamiq. … Continue reading
I’m following Joe Haldeman on Livejournal.You may know him as the guy who wrote “The Forever War” – one of the finest SF novels of the last century. Also, it’s one of science fiction’s many allegories for contemporary war- with the caveat that that this feels wholly real. Haldeman is … Continue reading
iBooks Author: We Nearly Made It There was a brief moment of euphoria, wasn’t there? iBooks Author was going to be a game changer. In a digital publishing landscape that is either expensive (Adobe Digital Publishing Suite) or clunky (Kindle Direct Publishing), iBooks Author was going to be free and … Continue reading
Posting in reaction to SOPA and PIPA, tech writer and dev Paul Graham calls for us to kill Hollywood and posit alternative modes of entertainment. Among the ideas he flings out there are games and interactive TV shows and things that “look a lot like shows but are more interactive”. … Continue reading
I’ve just come from reading a blog written by a radio journalism student. He recounts a stimulating first week at university where a series of industry luminaries rhapsodised about their lovely telly careers. The media, they said, is so marvelous. This special, special club. Being in it and part of … Continue reading