I have been sitting at my keyboard for some time now trying to think of a suitable way to start this article. All the obvious ‘great man’ openers seem wrong somehow, and will be done far better by people who actually knew him, so it is left to the rest of us to comment on [...]
An interesting exchange started on Twitter today about the relative merits of applying DRM to eBooks against not applying it and leaving the file available to be shared. Of course being Twitter the conversation happened in bursts of 140 characters and there were the inevitable misunderstandings and mix-ups, but the points made on both sides [...]
In the last 24 hours it has come to light that a large number of users of Google’s popular GMail and Google Apps services have lost all of their email. This is potentially not just a short term outage, but may be a permanent thing with no chance of recovery of the data. Leaving aside [...]
It was a crisp clear spring morning as Simon climbed into his car, parked as usual outside his house in a space it had occupied every day for the last ten years. The mist on the windows cleared as soon as he turned on the air blowers and so in a moment he was on his way [...]
