Robotperson

If you haven’t played with Google Earth yet, you’re missing out.

In short, it’s a free PC app that lets you explore the surface of our planet. Made up of stitched-together satellite images, it’s like having a globe on your computer, but one with incredible resolution (at best you can almost make out car models in [...]

Sci / tech articles for your cogitation:

Twelve ways to think differently, and no, this isn’t anything to do with Apple. Favourites of mine include:

6) Synthesis, Distillation and Restatement. Forcing yourself to explain an issue to someone is a great way to highlight the gaps in your understanding and gain insight.
12) Collaboration. I don’t do nearly […]

I’ve finally taken the plunge and ordered a digital music player. Sharp-minded readers will recall that I’m not a fan of the iPod and so for some time I’ve been looking out for an alternative. And for anyone who needs reminding, my beef with Apple’s player is that it inserts short gaps between tracks. This [...]

If you’re using an LCD monitor, check the settings. See if there’s an

option for ‘phase’, it’s under ‘Image settings’ on my Dell screen. I use a Philips screen at work and I’ve remarked more than once how much [...]

Last

week I bought a new laptop on Ebay and, giddy with childish excitement, I received it on Monday. It’s a Sony Vaio Z1MP, now christened the Zimp, and although I’m acutely aware of [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve had plenty of time to play with Lara’s new iPod mini. Although in many ways it’s a lovely piece of kit, I’m starting to feel that the iPod is not quite all it’s cracked up to be…
We all know how the player is widely praised for its design […]

I finally received my new Dell PC on Friday, and, at 75 days since my original order, Dell’s estimated delivery time of 7-10 days was out by an entire order of magnitude.

In view of this you might be surprised to hear that I’m actually quite satisfied with the whole deal. As [...]

Even as I write this, I’m having to stay calm about what I’m calling ‘the Dell situation’.

The details are too tedious to relate fully, but let me start by using the phrase Terrible Dell Service in a link to Dell.com, in the hope that Google picks it up [...]

As with every expensive purchase I have ever made, when I bought Lara her engagement ring I did my research.

This is such a male trait, I find it amusing. Somewhere on the xx chromosome must be a gene whose principle phenotype is standing around in WHSmith, reading magazines [...]

I’m getting stuck into a new Graduate recruitment project for Tesco. The beginning of a site build is exciting, but also taxing. There’s so much to plan and think about that the HTML equivalent of writers block can set in. The hot weather doesn’t exactly help with the mental gymnastics either.

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