Archive For 2005

The BBC has a compelling column entitled Survival of the Fittest by Harold Evans discussing the social and political aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After so many years of Social Darwinism, Hurricane Katrina could reawaken the American people’s appetite for compassion in government. I sincerely hope that he is right. I have wanted to post my… Continue Reading ›

I was sitting quietly this morning with a cup of coffee in one hand and my Nokia 6680 smartphone in the other. The next thing I know, the phone has slipped out of my hand and landed cleanly in my coffee. It actually looked rather funny, but needless to say it has stopped working. I’m… Continue Reading ›

Fresh morning air and low summer sun, the air not yet polluted by the day, cool on my face and crisp in my lungs, the beauty of the early morning.

I was beginning to wonder if I was just unlucky or fussy or both, as almost everything I buy these days seems to be faulty when I get it home or goes wrong quickly; I’m pleased to see that I am not alone. I mentioned this to a friend after his second Apple PowerBook power… Continue Reading ›

I’ve just upgraded the memory on my iMac from 512Mb to 1Gb, and it was amazingly easy. Just undo three screws that hold the back of the iMac on, remove the back, pop out the old memory stick, pop in the new sticks, replace the back, do up the three screws, cross your fingers, and… Continue Reading ›

NTT is releasing a 3D web browser that looks a little like how I imagined jacking into cyberspace through your Ono Sendai would look when reading Neuromancer by William Gibson, although my cyberspace was much darker and a little more Tron-like. Neuromancer is one of my top books of all time. It blew me away… Continue Reading ›