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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]
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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 [more]
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With Steve Jobs on a leave of absence, Tim Cook is running the show. I’ve written a profile of him over at Techradar: He wears blue jeans and trainers. He’s a workaholic. He’s incredibly intelligent, doesn’t miss a detail, and can destroy you with a single question. He’s had a brush with mortality. He’s intensely [more]
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A few months ago, I wrote a column for PC Plus suggesting that bandwidth was a utility that should be available to everybody. If unrestricted, fast internet access is something we need – and from where we’re sitting, it is – then perhaps the solution is to expand the USO, the Europe-wide Universal Service Obligation [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.
