Author Archives
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26th January 2016
Mindfulness has become very popular in recent times and a great many people are making a living from it. However, it turns out that there could be some unwanted side-effects which have been noted by The Guardian. “For days afterwards, I feel… Read More ›
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25th January 2016
A 14 minute short film called The Boy with a Camera for a Face is now available to view on Vimeo and it should prove to be worthy of your time. It is quite simply a brilliant idea which has been very… Read More ›
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23rd January 2016
“The human brain may be able to store one petabyte of data, which is 1 quadrillion bytes or 1 million megabytes. That’s enough memory to store 13.3 years of high-definition video.” That is a huge number and it makes me wonder… Read More ›
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22nd January 2016
This week I commented on the death of Leslie Nielsen with a tweet, and so did thousands of other people. The fact that he died 5 years ago did not stop so many of us airing our feelings because it was… Read More ›
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21st January 2016
It’s a well-known fact that most of us have become accustomed to lesser quality audio for music than we used to enjoy. The advent of digital music and the closeness of headphones has meant that pure audio quality no longer… Read More ›
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20th January 2016
The issue of digital property after a person dies has grown in the collective conscious as we collect more and more data through our lives, and a recent example highlights the problem very well. Peggy Bush tried to get a password… Read More ›
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19th January 2016
The world’s richest 67 people now have as much wealth as the bottom 50%.That is a remarkably sad statistic and one which makes no sense no matter how it is spun. There will always be rich and poor, and some… Read More ›
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18th January 2016
Space is for sale, and I must admit that the concept of spending $19.95 for a lunar acre does tempt me. I had thoughts of a company looking to build a huge development in space and needing my acre to complete… Read More ›
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15th January 2016
“I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma, and Rupert from ten years ago. They were… Read More ›
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14th January 2016
The Post-Mobile Era is not quite how it sounds in this article from Re/code, but it does raise some interesting questions. It seems impossible at this moment when billions of people are staring down at their small screens each day, but at… Read More ›
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