A Thinking Man

Apologies to many of my regular readers for a second ‘techie’ blog in one week, but I need to get it out of my system.  I will return to my normal subjects next week - I promise.  It’s just that I have recently discovered something else (see Backup!) that I find really useful and I [...]

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By the end of next month I have to make the decision, and I’m starting to twitch about it already.
The contract on my present mobile phone is coming to an end and I want to get a new model.  I could, of course, save myself all the hassle, and keep my perfectly good handset.  It [...]

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Those creative and incredibly generous people at Mozilla are releasing version 3 of the world’s best browser (in my humble opinion) tomorrow (June 17), and are trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records by having the most downloads in anyone day. You can find out more about Firefox 3 and how to [...]

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I wonder what you would want on yours?
Alison DeLauzon from New York had something on hers that she never knew about, but it proved really useful.

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I think I’ve discovered something genuinely useful and am sharing this with you in the hope that if I am seriously mistaken, you will be able to point out the problems that I haven’t seen.
I stumbled across Mobyko - a free (yes, it really does seem to be free) system for backing up your mobile [...]

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It looks like the over-friendly or grumpy waiter could be about to disappear from some restaurants (and when I say ‘about’, I probably actually mean within the next 15 years or so) . The reason will not be down to heavy investment in staff training in the catering industry, but to technology. There [...]

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A consultation is being undertaken in the UK by the industry watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), to look into the use, by newpapers, of material taken from public social networking sites. Apparently people are complaining that the information they made available to the public via sites such as MySpace, Meebo, and Facebook has [...]

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Having the right of free speech, doesn’t give you the right to repeatedly and unwantedly invade someone else’s privacy. At least, that’s what the Virginia Supreme Court has decided, and I, for one, am pleased.
Jeremy Jaynes, considered to be one of the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was recently convicted in Virginia for [...]

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There are press reports in the UK that the government is seriously considering legislation to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads. It is estimated that 6 million broadband users illegally download files each year.
I don’t, for a minute, doubt that piracy is responsible for a slump in the [...]

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Apparently the Internet is killing culture, and the biggest culprit is the blog. According to one writer, I must therefore be one of the biggest criminals around, responsible for the collapse of Western civilization as we know it. It is a heavy burden of blame to bear, but somehow I manage to carry [...]

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