Category Archives: Pointless Futurology

We trading something for nothing.

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Carps

Recently, my Kindle bit the dust. I’d been getting quite into the Kindle thing – reading it in the bath… downloading books on an ad-hoc basis… using it to browse the web. There is a remorseless logic to the digitisation … Continue reading →

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The New Twitter vs. Google

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Carps

Google has, for most of us, been the only way to find information on the internet for the best part of a decade. Their model is simple, even if the technology isn’t: Index every page on the internet Determine what … Continue reading →

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Daily Telegraph Photoshop Fake. Again.

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Carps

Oh dear. Despite it being known last year that an iconic image of Iranian missiles rising from the desert had been Photoshopped to show more missiles than were actually there, they’ve repeated the photograph alongside a story today. The newspapers’ … Continue reading →

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Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Carps

I’m sure I’m late to this whole thing (I blog once a week – in my underpants – and I really don’t know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I’ve just noticed that the “desktop” metaphor suddenly feels incredibly dated and stale. Continue reading →

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Broadband Tax. A predictable “no!” from me.

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Carps

My boss blogged approvingly about the proposed broadband tax. Predictably (for those who know me) I think the idea sucks. Continue reading →

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Tumblr is better than Twitter. Fact.

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Carps

I’ve been giving Twitter a hard time for ages now. It’s well documented that it is insecure (and I know for a fact that problems that got massive coverage a couple of weeks ago are still going strong) and for me it has no features to speak of… only limitations. Continue reading →

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