Arghhh!!! What is wrong with Microsoft? How has one of the biggest software companies in the world got it so wrong? As you may know I recently escaped to a Mac to avoid the problematic and unappealing MS Vista, unfortunately I still do a lot of document editing and so one of the first installs […]
Year: 2008
The Switch is Flipped
In my last post I described why I have decided to switch to a Mac. Well a shiny new MacBook Pro rolled up earlier this week, I’ve had a few days to acclimatise, and its probably a good time to report on what life is like this side of the switch. Before the machine arrived […]
Switching to Mac
Right – that’s it. I’ve had enough. It’s time to say goodbye. I’m fed up of hourglasses, crappy modal dialog boxes, ugly UI and an OS that reboots itself without bothering to ask first. After 15 years of suffering its time to move on. I’ve decided to buy a Mac. Don’t get me wrong, while […]
Nativism vs. Literacy
I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the Digital Native is reaching its […]
It should make us WinCE
I can’t bear it any longer. I can feel the rage building as I push forward through the crowd, people jostle and I duck a stray elbow. I catch a glimpse of him through the pressing bodies. I can’t believe no-one else has noticed. Most people seem enraptured, but some seem distracted. One man steps […]
Does Portillo dream of electric pigs?
Mmmm… so the other night I caught a BBC Horizon programme hosted by Michel Portillo called ‘How to Kill a Human Being’. The point of the programme was to look into the various methods of execution used around the world – but particularly in the United States – to see which was the most humane, […]