Lots of irons in the fire at the moment, even though it might seem rather quiet on the publishing front. My regular blog/column at Geeks2U continues on, however, this week looking at…
Month: June 2010
The inevitable one where I talk about iOS4
Which was bound to happen sooner or later. Sooner rather than later, as a matter of fact, with a somewhat stream of consciousness/first impressions blog on what installing and running it was…
The joys of freelancing, part one: Be your own boss! (but not)
One of the benefits of freelancing, so they say, is that you become your own boss. Nobody peeking over your shoulder, and endless days of getting up late, working in pyjamas and…
It's all about the accessories…
Isn’t that standard fashion advice? I technically shouldn’t know, having the apparent fashion sense of a three weak dead weasel. Unless decaying weasel corpses are “in” right now. It’s so hard to…
Can you point your fingers and do the twist?
I certainly can. It’s all glamour in this job, especially when you get to hob-nob with multi-million selling recording artists… or at least sing with them. That’s a passable enough description of…
Elites, Gadgets and the desire to do terrible things to couriers…
My, but I’ve been busy. So busy, in fact that the only mention I made of a column that went up yesterday was via my Twitter account. For those of you not…
The good, the bad and the Hippo.
More Hippo news than I would have thought possible. Although half of it is due to Kate (tip o’ the hat) and the excellent Zooborns Web site: Baby Hippo Hits the Pool:…
Five reasons to buy iPhone 4 (and five reasons not to)
Well, that didn’t take long. The first of what I suspect might just be a few iPhone 4 articles I’ll pen over the coming weeks, live now for your perusal at PC…
Macbook or iPad?
Sure, I could be writing about that new shiny Apple gadget. Undoubtedly, very shortly, I will be. But yesterday, when my latest article went up, I was still busy writing about Apple’s…
Desktop storage and online privacy
Monday kicks off with a review at CNET.com.au and this week’s Geekspeak column at Geeks2U. Firstly, a quick guide to online privacy at Geeks2U: Geekspeak:Privacy online: A quick primer: “One of the…