A Thinking Man

I am sitting in Caffè Nero trying to test out a new iPhone app - SpellChecker.
It has its own dictionary that it refers to as you type. However, it can also access a range of other iPhone dictionaries. I have mine linked to the very impressive (but expensive) Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Once you have [...]

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I’ve been a fan of Gmail for some time.  I love its powerful spam filter which seems so much more effective than anything else I have come across, and the seemingly endless capacity to store my mail and make it available for search is really useful for me when running a small business and needing [...]

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Well … Vlingo!
I’m not quite sure what to say really.  But it is impressive - at least, I think so.  It has certainly cut down the typing.
I have blogged before about how various iPhone apps were available to enable a user to use voice to interact with software on his or her phone.  For some [...]

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As David Aaronovitch remarked in the Times:
If polo is the most expensive sport in which to participate, then archbishop-baiting must be the cheapest. You don’t even need your own archbishop, but can share one with millions of others. No saddle is required, only a pen. The man in the biretta simply has to offer an [...]

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Things are definitely changing fast.
I have always tried to embrace technology. I enjoy novelty, regardless of usefulness. I can remember my first computer - a ZX81 purchased from WH Smiths. You couldn’t do anything with it really other than try to learn BASIC. Soon the specialist magazines were filled with programs for it that made [...]

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I have enjoyed 2008, and as I have reflected on why, I have come to the conclusion that part of the reason for my enjoyment is an increased appreciation of the internet.
Some of you, like me, may be able to remember the early days when going online was expensive and extremely slow, and you only [...]

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I have just set up a new Facebook Group to register support for the separation of Church and State in the UK.  The group’s position is as follows:
People are free to believe whatever they want (however strange).
The state should no longer be involved in formally supporting any particular religion.
Religious people should not have access to [...]

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God suddenly appeared.
There I was, minding my own business, when it happened.  Out of the blue.  No warning.  Just came.  God, or rather almightygod, appeared on my screen about three days ago.  And she/he/it has appeared with great regularity ever since.  Just popping up out of nowhere, reminding me of important things, and revealing the [...]

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I’ve lived with my iPhone 3G for a fortnight now and have decided that enough time has passed for me to be able to make some sensible comments about the experience. Initially I was ‘too intoxicated’ to be able to write clearly, but the passing of time has enabled some more mature reflection.
Things that [...]

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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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