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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]
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It’s that time of the week again: In the beginning, there was the Asus Eee PC. And the masses looked at it, and they found that it was good. Verily, they said, this Linux thingy isn’t half bad. And there was much rejoicing in the land of the penguin, for Linux had the market all… [more]
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I’ve been reading Q Magazine for as long as I can remember, but last year I finally stopped buying it. That was partly because I’d reached the age where I had absolutely no idea who any of the bands in it actually were, but it was mainly because Q became crap. Lists of songs are… [more]
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PC Plus has revamped its website, and while content’s pretty thin at the moment – it’s a start-from-scratch job rather than a makeover – it’s looking good. A few long articles are already up, including one I did a few months back comparing the technology, business models and opportunities for iPhones and Google’s Android. If… [more]
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Another of my .net columns has made its way to them thar internets: There were four interesting news stories this week. The Home Office decided that it fancied a giant central database of everybody’s internet activity, something that would be perfect for data mining in search of thought crimes. A student was detained for six… [more]
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Me, on Techradar: Twitter’s about to be invaded by the masses. We have a cunning plan. [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.
