If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Independent posted a story about Defra Minister David Miliband’s blog and how, despite the fact that he apparently posts all the entries himself, it costs the British taxpayer £40,000 a year to maintain it. Why? Because it currently [...]

It’s an iPod dock and loo roll dispenser in one handy unit. Charge and play your iPod through its integrated speakers while polishing and wiping from behind. Includes a line-in port for your hifi but requires external power.
And I have the only one in Europe sitting on my desk. How special do I feel?

Niall Cook at PR firm Hill & Knowlton, has written a piece for its corporate online mag, Ampersand, about using blogs as PR outlets. It’s a bit light on practical advice, which is probably reserved for in-house briefings, although he does say:
…anyone who treats a [blogging] community as an ‘audience’ will quickly be in trouble [...]

Apple opened a new store on New York’s Fifth Avenue on Friday. His Jobsness himself was there to oversee proceedings, and to celebrate its minimalist glassy genius, the Apple people set up a time lapse camera to record all the comings and goings of the first 24 hours.
For the most part, it’s fairly mundane, but [...]

I’ve just stumbled across the BBC Programme Catalogue. It’s one of those oh-wow sites that appear from nowhere, and I can immediately see me using on an almost daily basis.
Here’s an example. Let’s pick an old show at random: That’s Life. Typing it in, we find there were 448 episodes, broadcast between 1968 and 1995. [...]

A very special fax from a reader today, so furious much of it was illegible:
My experiences of Macs especially security is shitty.
I’ve spent

I’ve been playing around with Google Calendar these last few days, and I’ve been quite impressed. It looks good, it imported my iCal calendar without any problems (although I’ve not yet separated out my individual offline calendars into individual calendars in Google Calendar) and it has all the friendly, easy to use, twiddly bits you’d [...]

The news that Apple’s popped out a new bootloader so you can run Windows on a Mac has gone bonkers. It’s in the papers, on the news and, as of this afternoon, on the BBC World Service, who belled me this morning for an interview.
They apparently have a new policy of not doing phone interviews, [...]

The new Intel-based Macs have built-in cameras, and all run Photobooth, a snazzy little app for taking pictures for use in iChat. Naturally, when testing them, we needed to spend a good part of the day checking out the various filters and effects, just to be thorough.

Well, if it proves anything, it’s how lucky I was to get all my stuff off it in the 24 hours during which my PowerBook briefly sprung back to life. Without any warning, it booted up, not looking quite right, but at least letting me grab everything out of my mailboxes and Documents folder and [...]