The other day I was browsing the online edition of the Sunday Times and came across a brief quote from Jeremy Clarkson : "I mean, if you really want to serve the nation, you could stop whining about t…
Are we heading for a 'speculative bubble' effect in the portions of the media and IT economy that are tied up with Social Media and Social networking? Regular readers will know that I'm something of …
Although this little gem of a story happened in the US, I have no doubt that given a few more months it's likely to happen here. Well...I don't know...at least the Yanks encourage science and technol…
This is a long story in celebrity terms...but stay with me. It's one of those tales where we can't tell who's version of what happened is actually the right one - so many versions of what happened it…
For a long time I've taken the mickey out of Google's famous slogan 'Do No Evil'. I mean, most companies and individuals go through life with their ethical and moral compass intact and manage to perf…
I'll be honest; I'm rarely rising the bleeding edge of technology. Despite being professionally involved in IT and electronics since 1982, it's safe to say that I'm not one of the guys who gets calls…
As some of you may know, I'm a newbie at Twitter. indeed, my first efforts were not impressive, I stopped, then re-joined with better results. My saga and comments are briefly recorded in these two …
I think my interest in what might be called 'period piece detectives' started many years ago, when I watched the big screen version of 'Death on the Nile' featuring the wonderful Peter Ustinov as Herc…
The recent arrest of 2 men on an Emirates Airlines flightfor making a verbal bomb threat and for being drunk and disorderly is really nothing new; it's happened a few times since 9/11. Up until about…
I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists. The idea is that much privacy legislation …