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Archive for June 2008


Finally I moved off Blinklist

I signed up to Blinklist a long time ago, because it seemed to be the only web bookmarking service with a private flag on bookmarks. Since then two things have happened: one, del.icio.us added a privacy option, and two, the Blinklist service degraded. Or at least didn’t get any better. I now find it frequently [...]

UEFA doesn’t seem to understand piracy

Over on the Observer’s Business site there’s a report about UEFA taking umbridge at fans videoing and photographing matches and then putting them on content-sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr. The more I think about it, the more I’m in sympathy with UEFA, having started from a position of opposition. The matches are held [...]

Apple really knows simple

To me the most remarkable feature of last night’s iPhone 3G announcement was the maths. Before the presentation Apple had one iPhone (albeit with memory options). The announcement presented a new, 3G, iPhone. The total number of iPhones Apple now sells is… one. Compare that to, say, Nokia, who still sell the N95 alongside the [...]

Devil may care guide to proofreading

Here’s the extract from the new Bond book that Toby Litt begins his review with. Why do you think it might be worth quoting…? “Bond and Scarlett went into a spacious air-conditioned room that was painted crimson: floor, ceiling, walls – there was nothing in the room that wasn’t poppy-red. Behind a desk stood an [...]