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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]
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Me, on Techradar: It boots in less than a fortnight. It doesn’t make our laptop shoot up to 100% CPU usage for no good reason, generating enough heat to cook a moose. It goes like lightning on machines that struggled with Vista. It’s very good. In fact, it’s great. Which is why Microsoft should give… [more]
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The rather sarcastic Stuff Journalists Like website (which, incidentally, would be an awful lot better if the writing was better) sometimes gets a little bit too close for comfort: Stuff journalists like: writing a book Buried under nearly every journalist’s notebooks, papers and clips is an idea for a book. …Unfortunately, a good percentage of… [more]
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Who cares? It looks nice though. Full details here. Summary? Fast 3G, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, 3 megapixel camera, GPS, integrated IM, SMS and MMS, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, 8GB on-board storage and Webkit-based web applications. It’s almost certainly going to cost a fair whack of cash, though. [more]
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It’s Friday, which means time for another Techradar opinion column. Today’s offering: why Apple and Microsoft’s keynotes sucked. I love my job. [more]
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The nice people at Techradar.com have kindly given me a regular blab slot to talk about tech, and the first one is up: it’s about the powers that will enable the police to install keyloggers and other spyware on people’s PCs without a warrant. Imagine if the Home Office decided that the best way to… [more]
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Popjustice nails it: The fact of the matter here is that the best ever version of ‘Hallelujah’ was by Jeff Buckley and the worst ever version of ‘Hallelujah’ is Bono’s. Every other version of ‘Hallelujah’ between now and the end of time will sit somewhere between those two recordings. As for whichever ‘crusades’ are currently… [more]
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As mentioned previously, Glasgow’s Evening Times is laying off a whole bunch of people because, apparently, they’re no longer needed in today’s multi-platform media world. Looks like they’ve already sacked the subs. [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.
