Suddenly the lack of a to do list app on the iPod Touch (or iPhone) makes sense. This from AppleInsider:
Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early ’90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on [...]

These were taken in August, at a time when the days were hot and the sun set late. Further memories of warm times (and early 1980s interiors) on Flickr.

Tags: barbican, photography, battersea

I’ve long thought that the only innovations Microsoft made were in the areas of business: buying in their original operating system, licencing it at a cost when market norms were that an operating system was bundled free, using their operating system much later as a Trojan horse to eliminate their competitors in the browser market, [...]

For nosey parkers who want a break from estate agents there’s Open House Weekend. Here are some pictures from some of the places we saw, and more on Flickr.

Tags: openhouseweekend, houses, photography

On Saturday we saw Complicite’s production “A Disappearing Number”, and Michael Billington’s review of it appeared yesterday. It’s hugely wonderful and, as usual with Complicite, pushes the norms of theatre much, much further than you might expect. Yes, it’s a play, but it makes multimedia an integrated part of it, and so much of it [...]

By popular (i.e. one) request…
This is a combination of a number of recipes but it turned out alright in the end. However, I doubled the amounts below for the cake in the picture, as I was using a larger tin. The recipe below is for a 24cm tin. I found that the taste of orange [...]

This YouTube clip has been doing the rounds, but I thought I had an obligation to post it here. Miss Teen South Carolina struggles to answer a question. Amazingly, she still manages to look really pleased with herself at the end — that’s years of beauty queen practice for you.
But if that makes you despair [...]