In which my phone lives
Some fourteen months ago, I bought myself a shiny new Nexus S. In the year that followed, I grew to seriously love this phone. It has been rooted, tweaked, screwed up, nearly bricked, and updated ad...
View ArticleThe world without internet
Over on Mashable, a question has been asked: Ever Imagined a World Without Internet? What the fuck?, is my immediate reply. I click on the author’s name, and come to her bio: When she isn’t basking in...
View ArticleFacebook: still an asshole
In case you were unaware, Facebook is being an asshole again. This time, they’ve gone and changed your email address for you. Luckily, it’s easy to fix. Alternatively, delete your Facebook account.
View ArticleIn which things break
The first half of this week was tough. Things broke. As they are purported to, they broke in threes. last.fm As many denizens of the Internet might know, last.fm broke early in the week. Once upon a...
View ArticleThe Reader is dead. Long live the Reader.
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have probably heard recently that Google Reader is shutting down. And if you’re anything like our blogger, you’re a heavy user of Google Reader, and in...
View ArticleSearching for a Reader: NewsBlur edition
Back on Tuesday, I indicated that I would be reviewing the RSS service NewsBlur for the next few days. I thought it was going to be far less time, and a very short review. The first thing I saw when...
View ArticleReader replacement rendezvous: Netvibes
If you’ve been stuck under a volcano, without internet access, let me refresh you: Google is shutting down Reader. So, like everybody else who uses it, your intrepid blogger is looking for a...
View ArticleReplacing the Reader – Pulse edition
Next up on our Reader Replacement Rendezvous? Pulse. Pulse seems decent — a free news aggregation/RSS site. I’m not terribly fond of the way it categorizes things into newspaper-like sections (News,...
View ArticleThe death of DVDs
This is a stack of DVDs which has lived in my flat, and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that, until this week. The movies are all ones that I would want to keep during...
View ArticleReader Wars: The final chapter
Shortly after Google announced that they were closing down Google Reader, I started investigating alternatives. After looking at Feedly, Newsblur, Netvibes and Pulse, I came to three confusions...
View ArticleWaiting for Google
It is October 15th. I am getting off a train. I am not trying to remove my boot. I am trying to put away my phone. In retrospect, the method used was sub-optimal. Nothing to be done. Repair the screen?...
View ArticleThe money and the mouth
There are some things that have been bothering me lately. There’s the government’s horrible track record with technology, capped by the Great British Firewall, with which David Cameron and friends do...
View ArticleThe password conundrum
Until recently I guffawed at password managers. They were for the weekminded. Me? I didn’t need them. It’s simple, really — I have a formula. I combine a site’s name with a mnemonic, which generates a...
View ArticleAsk your ISP to delete your data today
Apologies to international readers – today I’m speaking to my fellow UK residents. Although I suppose a variant of this applies to EU visitors to the Big Bad Blog as well. There has been a trend of...
View ArticleYou like me, you really like me
This week, I read two very different articles about using the like function on Facebook. First, I read about Mat Honan of Wired liking everything he saw on Facebok for 48 hours. Then I read about Elan...
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