Category: Media

  • Leave Britney Steve alone!

    Techradar again: Steve Jobs is sick. Leave him alone. Imagine you’d had a close encounter with cancer a few years back. You turn up to work with a bit of a cold, and your boss gives you a worried look. “Is the cancer back?” Er, no. I’ve got a bit of a cold. You go…

  • Hey, Microsoft! Why don’t you give Windows 7 away for free?

    Me, on Techradar: It boots in less than a fortnight. It doesn’t make our laptop shoot up to 100% CPU usage for no good reason, generating enough heat to cook a moose. It goes like lightning on machines that struggled with Vista. It’s very good. In fact, it’s great. Which is why Microsoft should give…

  • In my head, I’m Ian Rankin

    The rather sarcastic Stuff Journalists Like website (which, incidentally, would be an awful lot better if the writing was better) sometimes gets a little bit too close for comfort: Stuff journalists like: writing a book Buried under nearly every journalist’s notebooks, papers and clips is an idea for a book. …Unfortunately, a good percentage of…

  • Leonardo da Vinci didn’t have to put up with this crap

    It’s Friday, which means time for another Techradar opinion column. Today’s offering: why Apple and Microsoft’s keynotes sucked. I love my job.

  • Why Police snooping powers are a step too far

    The nice people at Techradar.com have kindly given me a regular blab slot to talk about tech, and the first one is up: it’s about the powers that will enable the police to install keyloggers and other spyware on people’s PCs without a warrant. Imagine if the Home Office decided that the best way to…

  • Evening Times: and this is *before* the layoffs

    As mentioned previously, Glasgow’s Evening Times is laying off a whole bunch of people because, apparently, they’re no longer needed in today’s multi-platform media world. Looks like they’ve already sacked the subs.

  • WordPress 2.7: “Free software doesn’t get much better than this”

    I’ve been playing with WordPress 2.7 for a wee while now, and my first impressions are up on Techradar: Moving from 2.6 to 2.7 is no mere point upgrade: it’s more like moving from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. For beginners, it’s easier than before; for existing WordPress users it’s more flexible and…

  • Glasgow’s CCA is looking for fiction writers, artists and critics

    I don’t know anything about this so I thought I’d post the email I’ve just received: Here at CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow) we are launching a new quarterly publication named 2HB for which we are seeking contributions from writers and artists. The focus will be on short pieces of fiction and also…

  • BBC to ITV and C4: fancy some iPlayer action?

    Blimey. The BBC is planning to offer Channel 4 and ITV the free and open use of its iPlayer online video technology, according to sources close to the corporation.

  • Columnists on the Shannon Matthews case: fun with selective statistics

    Suzanne Moore in the Daily Mail: Twenty-five years ago almost three-quarters of those who lived in council housing worked full-time. Now fewer than a third do. This is something that’s come up again and again in regard to this case, and it’s been used to prove that there’s a growing problem of child-abducting maniacs living…