Media Watch Watch reports that once again the self appointed guardians of Britain’s morality are preparing to march upon the offices of Channel 4, brandishing pitchforks and torches, to slay the porn peddling ogres and demons that lurk within: “Massah” John Beyer, the Black and White Minstrels fan who likens himself to St Paul, told [...]
So, when did you last back up the information on your computer? In the last 24 hours? Last week? Last month? Never? If the answer is never, just consider the time and effort you have put into downloading and installing software, downloading movies and music, ripping your favourite CDs; writing letters, saving e-mails and images, [...]
Channel 4 continued their Banned Season with a program about adverts that have been banned or withdrawn from UK television. Some of these adverts were (naturally) absolute rubbish, others works of genius. In fairness to the censors, one of my favourites, the Wrigleys “Dog Breath” ad, was withdrawn only after a large number of complaints [...]
This morning I received an e-mail from someone calling themselves Verisoft LLC, offering $1000 to buy my drawingbusiness.com domain name. A quick Google search revealed that I am not the only one to have received such an offer: I am interested in purchasing your domain name drawingbusiness.com. I can offer you $1000 for the name. [...]
My favourite Mac commentator, John Gruber, has more to say today about the much discussed Apple versus ThinkSecret lawsuit. For any reader who doesn’t already know, the lawsuit revolves around leaking of confidential information about (at the time) unreleased Apple products, which the ThinkSecret editors published on their site. Apple is (I believe) suing for [...]
Camino has been my default browser for a long time now, and it has been great seeing the feature set grow and mature. I defected briefly to Safari, but came back to Camino after the 0.8 release, lured by the speed and compatibility of the Mozilla rendering engine. The most interesting feature to appear in [...]
My name is Richard Smith. I draw cartoons and silly pictures for a living, and get thrown round by men (and women) in skirts for fun.
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