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The other week, designer/developer Jamie Rumbelow interviewed me for his podcast. It’s online now, and provides a startling insight into just how many times a Scotsman can say “um” during an interview. I was on to talk about journalism – how to get into online journalism, what scams to watch out for, why books don’t… [more]
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Is it Tuesday already? To celebrate the news that Woz is doing the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, here’s a cheery look at some of the other daft things he’s done. Sadly there wasn’t enough time to Photoshop a pic to make him look like The Joker. When we discovered that Steve Wozniak would… [more]
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Via Heather: Sitepoint, the excellent web design publishing house based in Australia, have put their work and their hearts on the line for the victims of the Australian bush fires. Please take advantage of this opportunity to help those affected while brushing up on your web skills too. http://5for1.aws.sitepoint.com/ “To support the victims of the… [more]
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The Onion, via Paul @ Techradar.com: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work [more]
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Dan Lyons on – spit! – monetising blogs. My first epiphany occurred in August 2007, when The New York Times ran a story revealing my identity, which until then I’d kept secret. On that day more than 500,000 people hit my site—by far the biggest day I’d ever had—and through Google’s AdSense program I earned… [more]
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Me, on Techradar: OMG! 132 versions of Windows 7! We’re the first to mock Microsoft when the firm deserves it, but the Windows 7 line-up simply isn’t as complicated as some reports would have you believe. For the majority of us there will be two choices, just as there were with Windows XP. Home user?… [more]
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This one was slightly delayed because I’ve spent most of the last few days in bed feeling sorry for myself. Better late than never, though. It came from nowhere and spread like a virus. Suddenly everybody we knew was on it – telling us what they’d been up to, uploading photos, sending flirtatious messages and… [more]
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I’m a huge fan of Jack Handey (bad Flash site alert), whose Deep Thoughts often reduce me to a giggling wreck. If you don’t find the following Deep Thoughts funny, there’s probably not much point in reading the rest of this post. One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going… [more]
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Good point from No Rock’n’Roll Fun: Ed Stourton summarised the position of the Digital Britain report as seeing access to broadband as being on a par with access to power and water: an essential service for the way we live now. It’s impossible to see how you could square a belief that broadband is an… [more]
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A whole bunch of things are going up today. First, If Macs are so great, why isn’t everybody switching? Design, reliability, security… we all know why Apple addicts love their Macs. But despite fawning press coverage and the bad publicity surrounding Vista, Macs are still very much in the minority. So, why are PC owners… [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.
