Just saw an advert for a computer power supply that described it as ‘very silent’. What’s ‘very silent’? Surely it’s either silent or it isn’t? continue
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‘Very’ silly
on 26 May 2009
So what does Chávez’s mobile sound like?
on 14 May 2009
It’s hard to know what to make of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who prefers regional solidarity and social reform to appeasing a US-centric world economic agenda but doesn’t appear to have a coherent economic agenda of his own, more a make-it-up-as-you-go-along mix of expropriation, energy deals with Mugabe and, oh yes, badly organised coups d’état. continue
Like dancing about architecture
on 3 April 2009
‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ as somebody said. I wonder what they’d have thought of writing books about computing. continue
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A little local difficulty
on 7 November 2008
I’m not, as a rule, an avid reader of the magazine The Bookseller, what with not being a bookseller and all, but my attention was caught by a story from its Frankfurt Book Fair edition. continue
Liberty slips into a comma
on 15 August 2008
How much should we let computers do, and what should we leave to humans? Microsoft Word’s grammar checker it was that provoked me to wonder thus. continue
An interview with David Carson
on 18 June 2008
It’s not every day you get to meet the world’s most famous graphic designer. Not even when it’s in his diary. continue
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The pen is mightier than the sword, especially when accompanied by the chequebook
on 23 November 2007
Following weeks of speculation, Microsoft has confirmed that it will pay $240 million for this page, representing a 0.08% stake in MacUser. continue
Goe forth and multiply!
on 28 September 2007
So Pantone has launched a brand new colour system. Frankly, it’s about time. continue
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Put away that credit card. It’s easy to convince yourself that you need a new 24-inch aluminium iMac to keep up with the blistering pace of your own creativity, but you really don’t. A man in Italy, it says here on Reuters, has just written a novel on his mobile phone. continue
Words are very unnecessary; they can only do harm
on 16 March 2007
According to the Government’s ‘emotional literacy’ advisers, children who put their feelings into words are less likely to have mental health problems. That’s why they should spend more time in group therapy instead of those boring reading and writing classes. continue
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