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The only clear two memories from that summer: Work was shit, and I sort of met Neil Gaiman, who cheered me up immensely for a brief moment.

The grand old man of American folk song has passed on.

Tom Ewing is trying to get ahold of Q magazine’s review of the sodden Be Here Now, which led to this, my somewhat ranting, peripherally related response.

Here’s why special effects features suck these days: no sense of wonder. There’s just no magic to speak of anymore, because everything is done with computers. Everything.

To celebrate my new Kindle, bestowed upon me this Christmas by the lovely Girlfriend, I downloaded some new books. Well, not exactly new: some free classics from world literature.

Google Chromebooks apparently did decent business during the holidays, and I can definitely see the appeal; after all, you can do a lot in the browser these days.

According to Gizmodo, bots made up 61.5% of all Internet traffic in 2013.

To understand why HTC is in trouble, you need only compare their products. They streamlined their product line when they introduced the One series, and it seemed like a smart move.

At first, the whole becoming-a-dad thing didn’t quite move beyond mere abstraction in my head.

Iain M. Banks, author of The Culture novels, as well as a bunch of others set in the (mostly) real(ish) world, has passed away from pancreatic cancer at 59.

I just downloaded the alpha of Opera 15, the major new release that sees the Norwegian browser maker dump its own Presto rendering engine in favour of Google’s Blink.

I’m getting ready to move again, and am currently in the process of boxing up my things. It’s been less than three years since last time I went through this ordeal, and it doesn’t really get better with more practice.