An old gaffer, the whores of Babylon, and a quiche
My old headmaster was, as they say, a character. Known as “Dogs”, Mr Akers ran a boys’ comprehensive as if it were a grammar school, mortor boards and capes were de rigeur… and to say I didn’t...
View ArticleBook Review: Get off the Sofa by Dr Andrew Curran
If you want to know how your body works and how to keep it healthy this is a book that will fill you with knowledge. It’s well written with good and as simple as possible explanations of the complex...
View ArticleBook Review: Torn by Drew Wagar
The two main protagonists are as different from each other as two people could be… Drew does a good job of describing the backgrounds of these characters and brings them together in an unusual way. In...
View ArticleThink Tank
The British were the first to deploy tanks in battle during the First World War, at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The famous rhomboidal form factor of these Mk1 tanks was in direct response to the...
View ArticleIt’s the law
Our world is governed by laws, which is reassuring for most of us. Although the law of unintended consequences can make a mockery of well meaning legislation, and although from time to time we’ve all...
View Article4G causes loss of remote control
The remote control for my Bang and Olufsen BeoCentre is cool. Very cool. Machined out of smooth matt aluminium, it’s perfectly weighted and shaped to fit snugly in the hand. It’s oval cross section...
View ArticleSpeculatio in impedimentum
Once the detritus of another Christmas had been cleared away, I started to read one of my gifts; for inevitably I had been given a copy of Steve Jobs’ biography and I found myself pondering the...
View ArticleHave we ever had high quality services in telecoms?
If there’s a lasting impact of Steve Jobs, it’s an increased awareness that deep design matters. I say deep design, because so often “design” is dismissed as something superficial – applying to only...
View ArticleHemsley & Hemsley and the Art of Eating Well
My brother and his delightful new Portuguese girlfriend’s Chrimbo pressie was a copy of a cook book Hemlsey & Hemsley the Art of Eating Well, which seems to be all the rage at the mo. In of itself,...
View ArticleA MacUser goes cycling
I’d “liked” Mac|Life’s Facebook page a while ago, sporadically responding to various posts they put up. They say they are “your favourite source of Apple news, reviews and how-tos”, but actually it’s a...
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