A picture is worth a thousand words, and the camera never lies, but sometimes what you see on paper or the screen does not prepare you the real thing.The new iPod nano has this effect. It is more beautiful than it looks in photos, the proportions make more sense, but the major thing is the [...]
Amongst other things today, we went to a supermarket in Ribeira. I saw it’s name on a billboard as we came in, so we turned off – apparently towards the town centre. We hit a traffic jam which cleared up pretty fast, then headed through a largely residential part of town. Then we saw a [...]
Here’s a thing, there was a time when the most debt in society was carried by large institutions, which were relatively stable. Nowadays society runs on debt, and there are many more consumer oriented companies – selling all sorts of devices and depending on income from subscriptions, regular payments, etc – more phones, ipods and [...]
Yes, thats it . . “the marriage of really great client apps with really great services from the cloud is a really powerful marriage . . .” Steve Jobs at D5, and yes, I think this is a powerful combination. Applications which are great, in that the user can geddit quick, they work well, look [...]
It seems that the TV series by Adam Curtis, The Trap: What happened to our dreams of freedom have made their way onto google . . just as well, the link I left earlier to info about the programs seems to have died. Watch it here!
If a car was made of living parts, and the engine started failing, some other part might decide it were time to build another engine – or find a workaround – and in time you might have 2 engines, each getting strange interference from the existence of the other but not understanding why. I think [...]
It doesn’t feel much like it, apart from the fog at Heathrow which adds a certain strange anbience to the day, but Christmas day is only three or four days away. I am slightly hung over and badly in need of lunch . . so here I go.