A hint of mortality
Today Guy Kewney died of cancer. He'd been ill with Liver and bowel cancer for a year. For those of us who got involved in personal and home computing 'at the start' Guy was effectively 'Mr Personal…
Tagged: the-media
Dr Who - lazy writing or social engineering?
And so the new incarnation of Dr Who has his first adventure on BBC One, with 27 year old Matt Smith as the latest actor to portray the eponymous Time Lord. The one thing about Doctors these days is …
And there's one more thing...
My guilty secret for today - I love 'Columbo'. No, not Colombo, capital city of Sri Lanka, but Columbo, dishevelled Los Angeles murder squad detective in the 1970sTV detective series of the same name…
Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Social Media and the mob
One of my favourite films is 'The Fisher King')- one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio 'Shock Jock' Jack Lucas repeats the words 'Forgive me' from a TV script he is hoping to star in, w…
A quick guide to blog spam...
I'll soon be hitting a landmark on Joe's jottings - 10,000 spam posts caught by the Akismet spam trapping plug-in for Wordpress. Not at all bad going - I would advise anyone who runs a Wordpress Blog…
Facebook and the panic button....
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
Caprica 90210
I am an enormous fan of the re-visioning of 'Battlestar Galactica' - good story and plot, good characters, nice combination of high tech and retro gadgets (loved the old style telephone handset that w…
Dumb beyond reason - Children's Commissioner suggests raising English Age of Criminality
Regular readers of this blog will realise that there are certain hobby horses that I have. One is that I ask for little from Government except that they do what only Governments CAN and SHOULD do, an…
Blogger or marketer - your choice.
I encounteredthis article in my Twitter feed today, and to be honest it bought a lump to my throat. No, not that good sort of lump - the sort that makes you want to run for the bathroom. Let me start…