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This has lots of potential: Nokia Situations. Nokia Situations helps your device tie more into your life. You can manually define situations, like “In a meetingâ€, “Sleepingâ€, “Watching TVâ€, or “Playing with kids†and define how you want the device to act. With the application running in the background, your device automatically senses the situation… [more]
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Reviews of the various so-called iPad killers have been disappointing. I think I know why. manufacturers appear to be looking at the wrong things. They’re like musicians who think buying a Gibson Les Paul will turn them into Jimmy Page, or that being a big gobby pain in the arse makes them Bono. What makes… [more]
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Last week, I said that The Beatles on iTunes wasn’t a big deal. What kind of diddy hadn’t ripped the CDs or torrented the discography already? The kind of diddy that buys 450,000 Beatles albums and 2 million individual tracks, it seems. Oops. [more]
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About 200 years after it stopped mattering, The Beatles’ catalogue is finally available on iTunes. Do you remember where you were when Apple made its world changing, unforgettable Beatles announcement? I was right here, on this chair, in front of this computer, making this face: meh. [more]
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A few things I’ve written are online: first up, I’m doing Techradar’s weird tech section and I’ve got scary fembots, splattered bats and USB sticks as art. If we were asked to describe the last seven days in one word, we’d say “week” – but if we weren’t allowed that word, we’d say “roboty”, “batty”,… [more]
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We’ve been talking about publishing (or rather, not getting published), and G24 points out: You don’t need a publisher these days any more than you need pulped up trees to print on. I agree entirely, but I don’t think self publishing is the right road for me. There are lots of reasons for that, but… [more]
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Remember that book I was writing? I thought I’d post an update. After a lot of work, eight drafts and two printers I’ve sent it out to some people, and I’ve had loads of feedback about it from agents and other publishing insiders. The dialogue is great. It’s really atmospheric. The characters are fun. The… [more]
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Hello. Sorry if I’ve been quiet lately – Baby Bigmouth was a bit unwell last week so it’s all sleep deprivation around these parts. Not that that’s stopping me from getting angry about tech things. Far from it. Here’s my take on the government’s latest ISP-related idea. Rather than, say, reining in Google or telling Facebook… [more]
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A fascinating post by Jean-Louis Gassée on Google’s self-driving car: The hardware and the software will fail, no question. The real riddle is determining the socially acceptable failure rate. Today, there are about 40,000 car fatalities per year. Note the euphemistic “car fatalities†or “car accidentsâ€, as if the drivers weren’t to blame. You can imagine… [more]
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Stating the bleedin’ obvious it may be, but Lenovo says Windows 7 isn’t right for tablets and that Android 2.2, aka Froyo, isn’t ready for them either. Lenovo’s director of new technology Howard Locker, explained it this way: “The challenge with Windows 7 is that it’s based on the same paradigm as 1985—it’s really an interface… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
