“Teh internetz” are not always the best friend of the English language. Not that I subscribe to the idea that all this chatting on forums is ruining the kids’ ability to use language – after all, a language is a living thing, and should be, needs to be, remoulded, reworked, and re-engergised on a dailyContinue reading “Most Hated Words”
Author Archives: Alex
The iPhone: Apple’s best defence
A friend of mine works as a news journalist for PA out in New York, and as Apple’s iPhone is due for launch very soon, he’s writing a story and asked me for some thoughts on it. It’s always interesting to help out with someone’s research, as it gives you an opportunity to give someContinue reading “The iPhone: Apple’s best defence”
links for 2007-06-22
Hidden Tokyo – New York Times Very Tokyo – the trend for hidden drinking dens (tags: culture japan travel bars persistence) Nikkor Lens Information by Thom Hogan Handy info on lenses (tags: nikon photography)
An old school journalist does new media
As I mentioned in my previous post about heading off to Computex with a bag weighed down with AV kit, at work, we’re really pushing on with expanding what we, technically a bunch of magazine journalists, do. When I joined, close to four years ago, I wrote articles for a magazine. In the past year,Continue reading “An old school journalist does new media”
links for 2007-06-21
Cool Mac Apps . com – Home – Cool Software for Your Mac List of cool Mac apps. Some excellent stuff on here; Quicksilver is awesome, but there are some I have yet to try… (tags: mac OSX software list)
On jetlag and moving generally
I wonder what it is that causes jetlag – the distance? the effort and energy of the travelling? the fact you pass from the real world into the strangeness of airports and planes and duty free shopping at midnight? being separated, so viscerally, from home and all its rhythms? or is it just all toContinue reading “On jetlag and moving generally”
links for 2007-06-20
Steam – Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved Geometry Wars comes to Steam, and will now work on Win XP! (tags: games xbox360 steam) Ironic Sans: The best and worst of The Economist Nice round up of some of the Economist’s best and worst headlines, chock full of pop culture references and quality puns (tags: journalism economistContinue reading “links for 2007-06-20”
links for 2007-06-18
More Cool Stuff From the Grand Designs Live Show Nifty switch that kills standby devices (tags: house power carbon)
links for 2007-06-15
Mr. Lee CatCam Cat + automatic digital camera + ever so slightly wonky English = some form of genius (tags: cat photos funny geeky) blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity Marc A (ex of Netscape fame) on how to get stuff done; some good, sensible tips in there (tags: blog work productivity) From ContemplativeContinue reading “links for 2007-06-15”
links for 2007-06-13
Snitchtown – Forbes.com Good piece by Cory Doctorow on the pointless proliferation of CCTV (tags: london politics cctv surveillance forbes)
The Wired Jester 