TechFest overload

It’s hard to know what to write about first - the cute game that teaches five-year-olds computer programming concepts, a computer that turns into a telescope, the CAPTCHA login test that uses cats and dogs, more examples of remote collaboration surface computing, or a visual answering machine for the home.
After a day at Microsoft’s TechFest [...]

It’s a numbers game

There’s a reason I went into words, not numbers. I’m not great at maths, measurements, telephone numbers, splitting cafe bills or picking lotto tickets.
So, it is with no small irony that I can finally mention the work that has kept me so busy (and this site so quiet) these last few months. It’s not journalism, [...]

A pin dropped

Things have been quiet on this site for far too long, mainly due to the amount of work over the last few months, most of it not related to journalism.
I remain the only student my NLP teacher could not teach to juggle. Poor multitasking and a classic short attention span makes for interesting time management [...]