Equal And Opposite Answers

Yesterday, I did not blog at all. I sat at my computer in the evening, played a game or two, wrote a couple of emails and surfed the web a bit and deliberately didn’t come here to post anything (not that I had much to say anyway). The reason for this weird behaviour is that [...]

Back To Life

Went back to the office today after a four-day break and found myself in an all-day meeting. Found it a little hard to concentrate at times, possibly because of the abject failure of the aircon that meant an outside temperature of -1 was offset by a meeting room climate that could only be described as [...]

The iMac Cometh

The News in Haiku #24…. “Birthday present bought, I’m not a PC anymore, New things to be learnt” Today is “Black Friday” and it’s a bit of a peculiar thing for me to get my head round. As a Brit this is a completely new phenomenon to me but by all accounts it is an [...]

The Apple Of My i(Mac)

The News in Haiku #9…. “George Bush has written A book.  I did not even know that he’d read one” A series of random things. In a list…. The gas-man came good in the end (I knew you were worried). He did explain to me what had gone wrong with our central heating system and [...]

Apple, Ping, Blood and Tippex

“Just one look and I was captured I tried to walk but I was lame Just could not help myself from shoutin’ What’s your name, what’s your name” Bruce Willis, “Young Blood”, 1987 I booked myself in for a blood donation session next week. It’s part of a series of regular visits that the mobile [...]

Rotten Apple?

“You don’t get to 500 million friends, without making some enemies” Tagline from “The Social Network”, 2010 (new movie about Facebook by Aaron Sorkin – >> trailer <<) If you are reading this via Facebook… Hello!! Finally discovered a much nicer way of automatically posting updates from my WordPress blog onto Facebook with minimal effort. [...]

The Day The iPhone Died

11:42pm – I have returned home in just the nick of time from the Rose Bowl stadium in Hampshire where I watched the first of a one-day international cricket series between England and Australia. Rather marvellously, England won thanks to a remarkable innings from my new favourite cricketer, Eoin Morgan (103 not out). It was [...]

iPhone A Go Go

“Take all your chances while you can You never know when they’ll pass you by Like a sum the mathematician cannot solve Like me trying my hardest to explain” Athlete, “Chances”, 2005 Steve Jobs has just delivered his keynote speech at the WWDC where he has finally announced the “iPhone 4″. Please don’t mistake me [...]

Apple Of My Pocket

“I got an angel face. I got a brand new dog. I got forty meg of RAM. And a CD-ROM. I got a hired car and a record deal. I got an old guitar and a pedal steel.” Francis Dunnery, “Because I Can”, 1995 I have, depending on how you account for such things, three [...]

39-and-one-seventh

“You can’t be serious, man. You cannot be serious!” John McEnroe, Wimbledon, 1981 Yesterday was my 52nd day of blogging, which means I am now 39 and one-seventh. For those of you not paying attention – yes, you at the back – this blog will stretch to 365 entries, one for each day of my [...]