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• Which of these computers did you own?

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  This advert really takes me back, but I didn’t own any of them. I had a Vic 20 followed by a Spectrum (squishy keys) 48k followed by an Atari STE. via Russ.

• ‘My life was ruined by a typo’

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  When Nigel Lang was wrongly arrested on suspicion of sharing indecent images of children, he says his life fell apart. It all stemmed from nothing more than a typing error by police. “When I was arrested, I feared what was… Read More ›

• How to talk on the telephone

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I may have posted this before, but it’s still great fun to read. via Old Pics Archive.

• Future Boyfriend: A Short Film

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Worth 10 minutes of your time today.

• Always Put a Comma Before “and” in a List

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 7 )

  Do you go to the store for “cupcakes, vanilla, and chocolate” or “cupcakes, vanilla and chocolate”? There’s a long-running debate over whether it’s proper to include that last comma in a list. Well, forget proper. The comma makes things clearer,… Read More ›

• The 1984 Chevrolet Corvette

  By Shaun on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Be honest, you would love to drive this for an hour.

• Meet the internet hoax buster

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On 13 May 2012, friends of Dana Dirr, a 35-year-old surgeon in Saskatchewan, were greeted with a distressing message when they logged into Facebook: “URGENT PRAYERS NEEDED.” A post written by Dirr’s father informed her friends that Dana was fighting… Read More ›

• Kingsway: an RPG set in Windows 95

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The latest announcement from Adult Swim Games is Kingsway coming to PC in summer 2017. The announcement trailer is run as an old-school infomercial for a new computer operating system, but it is absolutely a point-and-click RPG styled to look… Read More ›

• You can’t built a bridge between technology and tradition

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 5 )

  I have been having some strange thoughts recently about the Apple Watch. Sorry to bang on about it, but it is annoying me despite the fact I am still wearing it every day. I really want to wear my Seiko… Read More ›

• Can the Surface Phone, or any other non-iOS or Android phone, succeed?

  By Shaun on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “I sincerely think its too late for Microsoft to succeed in the smartphone business no matter what they come up with,” comments a reader going by Osokona. “No one is going to switch their investment in iPhhones and aPhone and… Read More ›