Compliments can come in many forms; in the last couple of weeks I've been lucky enough to receive a few, ranging from the lovely to the frankly bizarre. Yes, a colleague really did send me a text message saying: have my babies I politely declined, but said I was...

So let's ignore the fact that HP are cramming 'Beats Audio technology' into their laptops which is a total marketing con from the same people who bring you hundred dollar HDMI cables which have no benefit over ten dollar ones (Beats hardware is mostly just re-branded...

I can't believe that the grid of app icons on my homescreen was asymmetric all this time! I feel lied to! via http://stam-design-stam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ios-5.html

via tuaw.com According to Albert Whatson, who took the now-iconic photo of Steve Jobs that currently adorns the Apple homepage, he asked Steve to think about his next big product when this photo was taken. Given that it was taken in 2006, we can be pretty sure that...

We awoke this morning to the sad news of Steve Jobs' death. But that's not the only thing I'm finding sad this morning. Jobs famously courted John Sculley - then leading Pepsi - to come work for Apple with the line, "do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your...

At $199 it looks an amazing bargain compared with the iPad, which starts at $499 in the United States. True, it's smaller, lacks a camera or microphone, and there's no 3G option - but surely Apple executives are going to be panicking about this massive threat to their...

A generic schematic block identifying delays on single-line drawings. Reproduced with permission, from BBC Research & Development White Paper WHP 175, de Pomerai, 2009 "The aim of the document was to collect some useful information that had been produced during the...

A few weeks ago our lovely host Roxanne dared to let me cook her dinner. After a pleasant-but-not-exciting veggie stir fry, I wanted something a little unusual for dessert. A combination of drunken Eurovision madness and stolen health-kick ideas seemed to deliver the...

via youtube.com I've posted "It Gets Better" videos from the Trevor Project before, such as the wonderful Pixar one. Google recently started an ad campaign entitled "The web is what you make it", and they made this beautiful spot celebrating It Gets Better. I just...