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A Good Weekend

This is a good weekend, because I’m not going to be spending it house hunting – put in an offer and it’s been accepted! So I’m off out 🙂

Good news: William Gibson is back

Only just found about this, but William Gibson’s new novel has been announced. It’s called ‘Spook Country’, and this is the very Graham Greene/John Le Carre-esque UK cover (the US one is a bit more “cyber”). As you may know from past posts, I am a huge Gibson fan, so I’m rather pleased it’s outContinue reading “Good news: William Gibson is back”

Bloggers versus Mainstream Media

"Print media is what it is. I can’t imagine anyone will be printing news on paper twenty years from now in the industrialized world" – the infamous Mike Arrington. The bloggers have been tearing lumps out of the "mainstream media" again today, after rumours of trouble and lay offs at the San Francisco Chronicle hitContinue reading “Bloggers versus Mainstream Media”

Diary of a T-shirt early bird

Tuesday: Email from Threadless. Your T-shirt has shipped! Wed: Lovely new Katamari T-shirts available from Panic (see above). Friday: Threadless t-shirt arrives. Saturday: Email from Panic. Katamari shirt in the post! Sunday: Temperature plummets. Light Hail. Monday: SNOW. Tuesday (AM): Spent the morning looking ruefully at new Threadless t-shirt, before covering it with many layersContinue reading “Diary of a T-shirt early bird”

A Spring Day In London

I’m currently spending my weekends house hunting, and roving far and wide in search of prey. Criss crossing the capital, I realised on Sundays, you can park on Waterloo bridge, so stopped the car and grabbed this shot of the Thames and the city.

The evolution of blogs

What’s it all about, Alfie Alex? I’ve been using a lot of Twitter recently, and in the process have been thinking about what this blog is really for. Over the years, it’s consistently evolved – originally it was a place for storing and sharing my photos, but Flickr’s taken that over; I used to putContinue reading “The evolution of blogs”

Preparing for F1 2007

The new Formula One season starts properly tomorrow ; I’ve been a fan for a very long time, partly, I think, because it’s the sport that so neatly dovetails with my love of games and interest in technology: the first website I ever made supported a Fantasy F1 game; I remember being blown away whenContinue reading “Preparing for F1 2007”

Can the PlayStation 3 do anything right?

Like many tech journalists, I’ve certainly done my fair share of Sony hating. What makes Sony such an exasperating company for me is its past: Sony used to make technology that was genuinely interesting, inspired even, and it was worth buying. Its stuff used to be so good. I wrote a review of an all-in-oneContinue reading “Can the PlayStation 3 do anything right?”

It’s never a good time to buy anything (aka, damn you the Nikon D40x)

I’ve just finished writing my column for the latest issue of Custom PC, and was focussing on how many e-mails we get from readers who want to know when the best time to buy a graphics card is. It depends on how you look at it, I wrote: if you want the most speed forContinue reading “It’s never a good time to buy anything (aka, damn you the Nikon D40x)”

Fun with feeds

The wildly, slightly implausibly successful Custom PC podcast (I say this because at one point, we were higher in the iTunes chart than Jamie Oliver) introduced me to the rather awesome Feedburner. It’s an absolutely excellent service, and TypePad, which hosts The Wired Jester, allows you to use Feedburner for your blog’s RSS feed. SoContinue reading “Fun with feeds”