Is hoon an exclusively Australian term? I’ve never really thought about it before. Anyway, today’s offering at CNET.com.au burns rubber at an alarming rate: F1 2010: “F1 fanatics, start your engines. F1 2010 delivers a compelling and engaging simulation of the world’s fastest racing series.” Meanwhile, at Hydrapinion, I’ve got a difference of opinion with […]
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That’s the subject of today’s Hydrapinion column. I can’t be the only one with this particular quirk — can I? Do your portable gadgets have names? “I’ve always maintained that if I had kids I wanted to be really cruel to, I’d call them Crispin, Tarquin and Maude, respectively.”
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Another day, another raft of Apple announcements. Of course I was going to write something on them, although it’s a little different from my usual all-in-grab-bag analysis of everything announced. Instead, I’ve posed a question over at PC Authority: If you had $1000 to spend on an Apple product, which one should you buy? “We’ve
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A trio of commentary articles to keep you busy/amused/informed (delete where applicable). Firstly, a somewhat delayed in publication column, written while I was in the UK on the relationship between Apple and McDonald’s: MacTheBlog: How The Apple Stores Make Money: “Now, just up the road is something that’s not that unusual. A McDonald’s.” Then at
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No, not in that way. But the experiences of my recent overseas trip continue to provide rich ground for commentary articles. First up at Geekspeak, pondering on the real value of tech “bargains”, by way of the duty free counter. Beware Of Tech Bargains: “Not exactly carry-on material, your average 50″ Plasma TV, and my
At the conclusion of the HTC event I flew to London for, I took a few days “off” to visit relatives, wander around old haunts and generally kick back a little. Except things are never quite that simple, and while I was doing that, plenty of my works were being published. Now that I look
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OK, so my usual pattern of updating this blog once per day has somewhat fallen apart. I’ve been even more busy than usual — something that can be attested to given I’m rapidly typing this out before boarding a plane to London — and not linking my articles quite as quickly as I might. For
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“Morning noon and night it’s drink and dancing, some quick romancing, and then a shower..” If only the life of a tech journo was quite that simple. Also, I’d look dreadful in fishnets. You know it, I know it — let’s not go there. Instead, we could go over to Hydrapinion, where this week’s column
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If you have that jingle going through your head now, my evil work here is done. Well, not quite. But it is quite apt to describe today’s output. First up, at Hydrapinion, a discussion about why GPS “voices” are so rubbish: Hydrapinion: What’s so hard about being able to speak, proper, like? “Thirty years ago,
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I was actually going to take today off as a sick day. Dropped everyone in at their respective places of work and education, and headed home to spend the day in bed getting better. But then the phone rang. Again and again. Couriers started turning up, and it became clear that my plans to recover would
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