It’s not everyday I get to parade a world-first about on my website, much less one that relates to the work I do, and the interests I have, and was done by people I know and respect. So please excuse me for one moment whilst I take advantage of the opportunity presented to me to [...]
Breaking news about a horrific breach of process that has led to 25 million records going astray between the Revenue and Customs, and the National Audit Office. Clearly somebody in the organisation screwed up horrifically, and is probably nursing a P45 and watching our most senior politicians defend themselves with a very very bad sinking [...]
So after almost a week of use, I’m in love with the iPhone. It’s absolutely great, and I’m really happy with the call package I’m on. I can’t wait for my number to port over. But it’s not perfect. Thankfully this is the first time I’ve had a phone that gets patches and updates seamlessly [...]
I’m a big fan of anything that is shiny, or has buttons. Regular readers will know this. If not, well, can you guess what phone I have? It’s not a difficult question…. So when Frances was designing our kitchen, I was delighted to discover that my love of shinybuttony things could be brought to [...]
So I did succumb, and picked up a shiny iPhone on Saturday afternoon. I gather that the Glasgow store had somebody queuing from the morning on Friday (I just can’t understand that level of expectation), but certainly would have been shocked myself it there had been much of a shortage: Apple have had almost six [...]
iPhone fever begins to grow is the BBC’s headline, and it’s true there’s a growing anticipation, including up here in my office The fevered press clearly seem to adore the whole thing, as the filler piece on Radio 4’s Today just before 9am showed. James May and a technical journalist from ‘Stuff’ both seemed [...]
We’ve all done it on occasion; some people do it almost without thinking. It’s the office equivalent of a school child raising his hand and crying “Miss! Miiiissssss! I’m worried Richard’s probably not going to deal with what I’ve got to saaaay!“. I refer of course to the “power CC”. The habit of CC’ing a [...]
The last wee while I’ve been driven every so slowly mad by an occasional freeze/hang that my Mac has been suffering the last wee while. I’d be busy typing away, doing my thing, when the keyboard would become unresponsive. No Option-Tab, nothing. Mouse still worked. If iTunes was playing it’d play for 5-10 seconds then [...]
A few weeks back I wrote about my concerns about Russia and the push/positioning of various countries for the resources believed to exist under the North Pole. Channel 4 News - easily the best daily news bulletin on television - is running a series of reports on the issue, with Jon Snow heading up the live [...]
Apple’s new Glasgow store is opening on Saturday (via Gordon). The transformation from lacquer-and-soft-furnishing horror that was ‘The Pier’, to shiny tech nirvana has taken a lot less time than expected. I’ll not be in the opening queue. We have friends over, and I’m really not the sort of Apple fanboy who rushes to such [...]
