Tesco Value iPhone
O2’s iPhone exclusivity ended with the announcement that Orange and then Vodafone would be supplying the Apple gadgets to punters. Orange have already launched, while Vodafone are set to begin...
Left 4 Dead 2
While downloading Machinarium from Steam yesterday I noticed that the long awaited Left 4 Dead 2 demo was available. Had, in fact, been available for public download since the 4th of November. Just in...
An Open Letter…
An open letter to everyone who has asked me to sign a petition registering my disagreement with Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. Dear Friends, I appreciate and understand your...
Notes on Narrative
Some notes on narrative that, in best Blue Peter tradition, I made earlier. 16 years earlier: Narratives are made up of units of information. In Roland Barthes’ ‘Introduction to the...
Bean (and other none comestible writing tools)
I recently reviewed Bean 2.4 – a brilliant, free and very lightweight Mac word processor – for Macworld. Here’s my redux version of that review: My quest for the...
The Other Side of Abbey Road
It was the 40th anniversary of Abbey Road, the Beatle’s last studio album in August, giving music mags and MP3 blogs a chance to review their final opus afresh. Except,...
Education, Education, Education…
I was in the last batch of students to enjoy a free education. Graduating in 1989 from my first degree, I received a full, means tested grant with my tuition...
Notes on Focalisation
Here’s a beginner’s guide to focalisation or “point of view”. Focalisation is the perspective from which we experience the narrative being told. I’m going to find a more concise...
Stephen Hawking Lives
“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical...