Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple's famous TV advert for the groundbreaking 'Macintosh' computer back in 1984. The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free comp…
Hear me out on this one. I've been a political animal for over half my life; for me it came with the turf of being working class boy, avoids going down the pit by going to university, comes home and s…
The last visit from a Pope to the UK before the most recent one was back in 1982 - I'm old enough to remember that one. I was just finishing university at the time, and I remember doing some revision…
Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of 'development has been stopped'. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunit…
There's an old joke about politics - politicians are people who think that: Ethics is a county in the south of England Morals are paintings on plaster Scruples is the Russian currency Unfortunately it…
A little history. One of the reasons why there has been radical political change in the UK in the last year is that the British people have finally started getting truly fed up with MPs on the 'gravy …
Back in January 2009, there was a little article in The Guardian referring to thefunding of a film by Chris Morris by FilmFour, the film production arm of Channel 4. The film, "4 Lions", has now bee…
For a senior politician to be filmed 'meeting the people' is a feat of great courage that is fraught on all sides with danger. The voter may hate your guts, may egg you, may tell you things you don't…
Maybe I'm just old, or maybe I just don't get some aspects of modern business - or are some people online purporting to be business experts just arrogant and opinionated folks with insufficient experi…
Back in 1984, Apple had Ridley Scott direct a very imaginative advert)to launch the Macintosh computer. It ran twice - once on a small TV station late at night to get it in the running for some award…