If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just two weeks after resigning his column at the back of MacUser, Tony Tyler has died. He was diagnosed with cancer 11 days ago.
His history with the magazine stretched back 21 years, all the way to the second issue, […]

Saturday was a day of work. Not in the office, but at Mac Expo, manning the MacUser stand, smiling, shaking hands, handing out free software, making tea and buying cakes for the ladies selling our subscriptions.
This year’s show was much better than it was in 2005. It was far less iPod-focused, and more about the […]

Nik (editor of MacUser), Graham (editor of MacFormat) and Mark (editor of Macworld)
Last night, then, was this year’s Awards. 310 people in tuxes and ties to hear how many of the 31,410 votes cast they’d managed to gobble up for themselves. Then eat, drink and dance until two, followed by the after-party until fourish.
Incredibly it’s […]

Here’s the little fellow I ate my lunch with today in Bedford Square.

It’s that time of year when blogging goes to pot. Thursday night is our Awards night. Thursday, Friday and Saturday day times is Mac Expo, out in Olympia. We’re doing the magazine. I’m writing a labs test. We’re sending a book off to print. There’s marketing to be signed off, a script to be written, […]

Best way to get your press release noticed? Shred the bottom half before sending it, and deliver it still sticking out of the shredder, like the one we received this morning.
Genius.

It not just a gimmick, either. This little critter has very sharp teeth, and we’ve spent much of the morning shredding CDs.

Moo, a British start-up masquerading as an American printing house (Dollar pricing, you see), does only one product. But it does it well.
These funky little calling cards have your own photos on one side, and your details on the back. Anything you like so long as it’s six lines or less. The pictures come straight […]

I was up before the sun this morning, as I wanted to go out and take pictures of the deer. It’s that time of the year when they start to get all frisky and the males fight for dominance.
Driving through the woods and the half-light lanes, I saw plenty. Sometimes in ones and twos - […]

I came out of the tube at Liverpool Street this evening and walked straight into the middle of an enormous flashmob. The whole concourse was filled with people dancing, silently, to the music on their iPods. Thousands of them, on both levels, while around the edges businessmen in suits asked each other (and the police) […]

I’ve had, but not touched, a book of London bike rides for far too long. So, today, I set out with James-Paul to cycle ride five: London Bridge to Greenwich by way of the north bank, and back by way of the south.
Except we didn’t quite do that. We got to Greenwich in much less […]