Blu-Ray Review : Synecdoche, New York

by | Feb 7, 2011 | Blu-Ray Review

As I start this review, I know from the outset that I will almost certainly fail to convey what it is like to watch or, indeed, why you should watch it. I could fall back on something straight forward like “if you like Kaufman’s other work, you should...

TV Ads Missing The Brief

by | Feb 1, 2011 | zeitgeist

Apropos of not very much, earlier tonight I saw an advert on TV for Barclays Business Banking. In it you see a very slow transparent shoe making machine. The voiceover tells you that 4 out of 5 business loans are approved and suggest that this particularly shoe...

Writing in the Cloud

by | Jan 26, 2011 | Technology, Writing

My keen eyed reader will have noticed that I recently mentioned my first tentative steps towards a new novel. Being far more of a techy than a writer, I obviously spent far more time worrying about how to organise the writing process rather than doing much writing and...

Note to 16 year old self

by | Jan 23, 2011 | zeitgeist

As I approach the end of my 20th year of professional life, I’d like to leave this short note to myself just in case, by some miracle of future technology, I end up reading this in the past. First thing to say is that choosing to work in IT wasn’t a bad...
56 Free Abstract iPad Wallpapers

56 Free Abstract iPad Wallpapers

by | Jan 11, 2011 | iPad Wallpapers

After a lot of experiments, I found that abstract textures or background work well on the iPad. Here is a big free collection of abstract textures and backgrounds for the iPad that I put together after a very long trawl through all my photos. Hopefully there is...