It’s unlikely that I’ll be posting any new articles here in the next ten days or so, due to other commitments. Normal service will resume towards the end of the month.

Outside the tube station I saw people stop and point with open mouths at the Evening Standard news boards that read ‘DJ John Peel Dies’. The last time I heard John Peel’s voice on the radio — I don’t know if it was the last time he was broadcast before he died — was two […]

I went to the Planet Mu album launch gig last night — courtesy of a Mixing It competition I won — and someone asked me if I was Mike Paradinas (a.k.a. µ-Ziq, and founder of Planet Mu Records). Hmmm. Well it’s better than being compared to Hugh F’ing-Whittingstall.

It’s a year since I started running this site. I don’t think there was a clear-cut launch date, but 15 August sticks in my mind as the first time I started posting in ‘real time’ (postings with dates earlier than that were added retrospectively to pad out the site in the early days). Here are […]

I’m taking a break from posting here for the rest of the month. Back in July.

Here are a couple of pictures taken yesterday on Dartmoor, with the quality compromised even more than usual owing to the difficulty of seeing anything on the ‘viewfinder’ on my phone in the sunlight. Click on the images to be taken to much better photographs and details of the sites courtesy of the Modern Antiquarian […]

… so Microsoft won’t understand how I feel about the fines the EU wants to impose on them. There’s a generation of computer users who have come to assume that the bugs, glitches and security holes in Microsoft’s applications software are just an intrinsic feature, and all software is like that. Not true.

I was at the ISP Forum most of last week, representing Wired Workplace. The main theme of the event, which is close to our hearts, is how to make a profit from selling broadband services. Here are a few headline facts and opinions (most, but not all of them, are taken from a briefing by […]

This is a ‘blog‘ site, right? At least, it runs on software designed to support blogs. And that brings with it certain ‘genre’ expectations. Like: you’re supposed to provide links to off-the-wall sites that you’re friends haven’t found yet, and make comments on them that walk a thin line between ephemera and profundity. Unfortunately this […]

According to a feature on BBC News, “40% of emails sent are thought to be spam” and “British workers spend up to an hour a day clearing their inboxes of junk e-mails.” I’ve been away from my desk for just under 100 hours over Christmas. During which time 596 messages hit my in-box. Of these […]