It sez here: Top Gear stars James May and Richard Hammond have not yet signed new contracts despite their agreements expiring at the end of the month – leading to fears they may leave the show. That’s right, folks: there’s a real risk of Jeremy Clarkson staying on television. Start panicking now. Tags: topgear, jeremyclarkson, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A similar — but distinctly more convivial — experience to Neil McIntosh’s run-in with AOL. I got a mail about a photo I put on Flickr: it’s nominated to be included in a forthcoming visitors’ guide, and I had the opportunity to agree to this or withdraw it. Following up, the site said: While we [...]

I just went out out to buy a card reader for a Micro SD card, and maybe my camera’s Compact Flash card as a nice-to-have. I have returned having spent twenty quid on a — ahem — 55 in 1 card reader. I am currently both in wonder that someone has produced a device that [...]

Here’s a photo sequence that appeared in the paper this morning, and I couldn’t stop looking at it for ages. A man taking a photo above the Grand Canyon, and… oh, goodness. Update: There’s some discussion about whether it’s a hoax. It would seem that any possible hoax is about not revealing the full picture, [...]

Reg Developer picks up on Microsoft’s defence[*] of features causing confusion for Windows Vista users. Of interest to me is this, from Microsoft’s document: We’ve heard some of you say that Windows Vista runs slower than Windows XP on a given PC. So what’s really happening here? First, we need to avoid comparing apples to [...]

Spotted on a poster on the way to work today: LloydsTSB have an exciting and unique offer in which you can take out a mortgage with them and they will kill a baby polar bear on your behalf. Okay, that’s not true. But they do have “The only mortgage that gives you free Airmiles”, which [...]

It was a late night last night, and I was listening to the Shipping Forecast (all jolly good until you get the National Anthem; a waste of airtime, but imagine the uproar if they scrapped it). Anyway, Charlotte Green, or whichever salty sea dog had the pleasure, seemed to be telling us that an awful [...]