The Dr Johnson License....
I appreciate that this is likely to be one of those posts that will annoy some folks, but, here we go. A couple of days ago I was invited by two or three separate people to join Facebook Groups and si…
Tagged: the-media
Playing the game of War
One of my 'guilty secret' films is the 1982 John Badham movie 'War Games', in which a teenager inadvertently starts the countdown to World War 3 by hacking in to a military computer system. He thinks …
Exclusion 2.0 - is daft jargon necessary?
I just came across this on my Twitter feed - a reference to a " 'Future of the web' Turtle" at Open 09. Yup - a turtle. After some Googling about and learning more than I ever wanted to know about o…
Book Review - 'Fantasy Island' by Dan Atkinson and Larry Elliot
No, nothing to do the 1970s TV series with Ricardo Montalban as a bloke who made wishes come true on an Island with a combination of technology, actors and smoke and mirrors. Although..... Nope, thi…
The 'Why should I give a fuck?' award for today goes to....
OK - first of all apologies for the title. It's just that the trivial background behind this post made me very angry this morning. I may just be having a grump, heading for a cold or suffering from …