My son is 18 years old now and in 2006 we travelled to Orlando to take him to Disney for his 6th birthday. It feels like an age ago, but is in fact just 12 years. Think about 12 years… Read More ›
Articles
Apple’s strange guarantee for Steve’s replacement devices
A friend at work, Steve, is now on his third pair of Beats X headphones because the previous two started to lose audio quality. He called Apple support and was asked to take them to his nearest Apple store where… Read More ›
Music
In the beginning (well, my beginning anyway) there were LPs and my parents old 33s. Then cameth cassette tapes and behold the radiant wonder of the CD. Upon this time was a golden age of mixtapes, whereupon one might assemble… Read More ›
Impossible to function without the big five tech giants?
The technophobic tendency to attribute this failure to lack of moral fibre should be resisted. It’s not easy to cut yourself off from a system that links you to friends, family and employer, all of whom expect you to be… Read More ›
On Death
It’s a brilliant thing he’s doing. His response to the guy who lost his wife is, to borrow a phrase, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. tweeted here. Nick Cave is a special human being. They would not be able… Read More ›
Tudor Black Bay GMT thoughts. Too good for me?
A grail watch that is so good it just doesn’t feel right For many years I have wanted a Tudor Black Bay Heritage. It has always been the watch I look at and consider to be ‘the one’. I cannot… Read More ›
RIP WAP (or don’t, we don’t care)
I’m impressed at the combination of technical depth and strong feeling of that article. WAP was horrible. And like the article mentions but my summary leaves out, the nickel-and-diming of the usage fees kept people away in droves… More here…. Read More ›
What I Learned From the Hacker Who Spied on Me
Should you cover your webcam? WSJ’s Joanna Stern asked an ethical hacker to get into as many of her webcams as he could. In the process, she identified important tips for being safer online. Photo: Natalia Osipova/The Wall Street Journal…… Read More ›
There are new features and there are real features
I have found that I am using almost none of the latest iOS features that Apple has released. If they need any kind of effort on my part I am discovering that I am not even touching them. If they… Read More ›
A broken system
The problem of free work is getting worse as the UK’s freelance army grows. The number of self-employed people in the UK has increased from 3.3 million in 2001 to 4.8 million in 2017, according to the ONS, contributing the… Read More ›
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