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Category Archives: Gadgets

Towards the Eternal Conversation

30-Jan-09

Well, if 2008 was the Year of Facebook, it looks like 2009, judging by what everyone’s been talking about during the first few weeks, will become the Year of Twitter. As much as I like new technology, however, there are certain limits to what I consider to be the sort of useful applications which actually [...]

Also filed in Conversation, Experiences, Flapjack, Friends, Futility, More than meets the eye, Networking, Questions, Relationships, Relatives, Sarcasm, Status, Staying In, Thoughts, Train stations, Trivia, Twitter, Update, Waiting, Words, boredom, habits, lunatics, personality, practical use, privacy, reality, risks, social networking, weather | | Comments (3) »

Sharing the sound

13-Sep-08

I’ve written previously about bad experiences whilst shopping, so here’s an interesting twist I encountered last weekend. I went into a Philips audio shop to look for some headphones, and I found myself checking out a pair of swish Sennheiser wireless headphones that looked a bit pricey but pretty good. My bad hearing however means [...]

Also filed in Demands, Interrogation, Panic, People, Shop assistant, Shopping, Technology, audio, expensive, headphones, hearing, hi-fi, sound | | Comments (2) »

iCame…iSaw…iConquered

14-Jan-07

Heard about Apple’s new iPhone? Hard to avoid it, really. How about the man behind it (and chief executive of Apple), Mr Steve Jobs?
If you don’t know anything about him, it certainly seems like certain newspapers are trying their best to make sure people know what a great person he is.
In the Guardian a few [...]

Also filed in Apple, Journalism, Newspaper articles, Newspapers, People, Reviews, Sarcasm, Shopping, Staying In, Technology, Things I dislike, Thoughts, Words, Writing, You Couldn't Make It Up, iPod | | Comments (0) »