That is how long it has been since I last wrote here, and that is a bad thing. That’s fully one year, two months, and three days. As it happens, I haven’t written a diary for an even longer time, and I think that’s a shame, too, although this post is probably the closest this blog […]
Last night at the gym, as I was collecting my things from my locker, I overheard a group of men talking. I might add that it’s not particularly difficult to do so when the conversationalists insist upon bellowing their views across an entire wing of the changing room, but in truth that is another matter […]
Today I found myself browsing a website called JewFAQ.org which, incidentally, I wouldn’t recommend you spend any of your own valuable time reading. Even if you can get past the infuriating and constant use of the word ‘we’ to refer to the thoughts and feelings of an entire race of over fourteen million people, you […]
Often people create products or services to solve problems that they have themselves. So, I’ve made a thing. The problem that I hope to solve needs a little context. I’m a big fan of twitter, and I talk a fair bit on it. To friends who I know already, and to complete strangers. One of […]
It’s fair, I think, to suggest that most people in even remotely Christian countries will recognise this line as Genesis 1:1 – the very start of the Bible. As most probably also know, almost as if it were ingrained into their collective consciousness, God goes on to create all that exists in six days. Now, […]
I think some iPhone competitors are getting it all wrong. How? By poising themselves as just that – and, quite specifically: nothing more. Even if you dislike it – and many people, at least in theory, do – it’s hard not to recognise the incredible success that iPhone has had. I believe that this is […]
When I started writing this, I’d been watching the news of Eurostar announcing that they wouldn’t be running a service for the third day running. Predictably enough, this was accompanied by a whole slew of interviews with executives at Eurostar standing outside St Pancras explaining the obvious, alongside (as if they are equally credible or […]
Today, the Guardian sported a very different front page (the reason is for a climate change, Copenhagen-related point they’re making alongside fifty-six other newspapers all over the world, but this isn’t my point. If you’re interested in the article itself, it’s here.) For me, this is design that is at once functionally beautiful and […]
The concept of ‘liking’ is something that very much could be a very useful and beneficial feature, both to individual users (who want to effectively ‘save’ something for later) and to a larger network of friends or strangers sharing interests (who all benefit from good content being visible and filtered by their peers). But I’ll […]
“But I’d also like to have some assurances from Apple about reducing the length of the App Store approval process, having the ability to respond to factually incorrect iTunes reviews, not be limited to 100 beta testers, or that large, prominent developers won’t always get preferential treatment.” This was written, here, by Gedeon Maheux – […]