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Yes. Yes, it will. So what? Look around you the next time you’re at a gig, or in an airport, or anywhere else large numbers of people are gathered. You’ll see loads of iPhones, many of them in the hands of idiots. [more]
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Smartphone apps are great – unless they’re putting you out of business. Today’s Techradar op/ed: If you can scan the barcode on a flat-screen TV, a fridge, a Fimbles DVD or anything else you’re thinking of buying, you can instantly discover where there’s a better deal. It could be the shop next door, or a… [more]
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As you might have heard, Modern Warfare 2 – which comes out today – includes a bit where you’re doing terrorist things. It’s causing a bit of controversy, and of course I have an opinion on that. What we’re seeing here is something much more interesting than mere headline chasing: it’s a dramatic example of… [more]
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Yes it is. If it weren’t for Firefox, you’d be reading this in IE6 – the software equivalent of the horrible Trabants the East Germans tooled around in before the Berlin Wall came down. It’s a browser, certainly, in much the same way that a Trabant is a car. But the Trabant isn’t a great… [more]
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Oh yes it will. Lord Mandelson’s draconian anti-filesharing plans are designed to save the music business. But does it need saving? Thanks to evil music pirates, sales of singles in 2009 are, er, higher than they’ve ever been. “This truly is the era of the digital single,” Martin Talbot of the Official Charts Company says.… [more]
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Me at Techradar: In many ways Android is a bit like Windows. The first version of Windows wasn’t up to much, but Microsoft refined it, refined it, refined it a bit more and then used it to take over the Earth. Google’s doing the same. [more]
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A new post on Techradar, based on one blogger’s unhappy experiences of accessibility – both online and in the real world: “What will it take take for Deaf and Disabled people to be a real part of so called Digital Britain?” Smith says. “Why do we have to fight for our access needs so much?… [more]
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It’s the best Windows yet, we’re told, but the reviewers said the same thing about Vista. Can we trust them? What’s different about Windows 7? …unfair or not, people did criticise Microsoft – again and again and again and again, until the man on the street believed that Vista was as desirable as a six-month… [more]
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I went to see Massive Attack last night and they were good. [more]
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Probably… Income tax was introduced in 1798 to fund the war against Napoleon, and as you might have noticed he’s been dead for quite a while now. Technically, income tax is still a temporary tax – the government has to renew it every year in a Finance Act – and we’ve got rid of it… [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.
