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Category Archive: Life

How copyright disserves almost everyone

Current law does not help websites such as this, or Wikipedia – or the original artists.

February 12, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Cock-ups, car ferries, and carrots: why we continue to get it wrong

Don’t believe that the problem is with self-regulation. It’s all about incentives, not regulation or penalties.

February 5, 2016 General, Life, Technology

The surrogate, virtual, and intangible, and their worth

Alphabet (formerly Google) now has the largest market capitalisation of any company in the world. That’s got to be news, hasn’t it?

February 2, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Is brevity the soul of the abrupt, rude, and offensive?

Is Twitter’s 140 character limit the case of so much rudeness and offensive behaviour? Ask Richard Dawkins.

January 31, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Taxing good sense: breaking old habits in forms

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Using Acrobat for filing your tax return is like sandpaper for cleaning your teeth.

January 27, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Accept no substitute: get out in the real world

Those living in towns and cities used to flock out to the country at the weekend. Now it is the time for Minecraft and VR.

January 23, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Telling the story: narrative across media

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From cave paintings to on-demand movies, narrative is one of the most pervasive and persistent features of humans.

January 18, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

Now we are one: this blog’s first birthday

Born from the ashes of MacUser magazine, it has come full circle as my first section appears in the latest issue of MacFormat.

January 17, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Better than the web: The Economist Pocket World in Figures, 2016 edition

There’s more to the world than just numbers, but you will find most of those numbers in here.

January 16, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

Wikipedia: happy birthday!

Thank you, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and the many who have given their time and effort to this Wonder of the Web.

January 15, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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