I met up with my new chum Paul Fabretti whilst I was at FUEL last week. He’d been to the launch of the Flip Video camera the night before and it took little encouragement for Paul to whip it out and show me his. Matron!
Sadly, this involved Paul then filming me with said camera and [...]

A week has passed since I started my RSS diet which brings the experiment “phase” to an end.
“Will you be going back to RSS?” I hear you ask; and the answer is no, I will not.
I really expected to find not using RSS difficult, that I would be spending more time on websites trying to [...]

It’s now the end of day 2 of my RSS diet and I’m pleased to say that I’m not missing Google Reader and my multitude of feeds at all.
Interestingly, not only am I not missing RSS but my time spent online has also dropped. I thought that I would need to spend longer reading my [...]

I’ve decided to conduct an experiment; I’ve decided to see how I get on not using using an RSS reader or following my multitude of RSS feeds for one week.
I’ve always read and followed a large number of websites for both professional and personal edification and RSS, being created for this very task, seemed to [...]

You gotta love John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame… In a great post about the iPhone, it’s launch week remember, John pokes fun at some of the iPhone doom mongers in the way only John can.
This piece made me laugh out loud; in which Mr Gruber responds to a quote from an Verizon executive:
Mr. Lanman [...]

I was very sad to read that Walter ‘Wally’ Schirra has passed away. Wally was the only astronaut to fly on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions and whilst he never walked on the moon his Apollo 7 mission was a vital step towards that incredible achievement.
Of the 12 men that walked on the [...]