Imagine how many times a day your thumb glides across the screen of your phone, taps an app and you find the whole world at your feet. Now imagine a world without Wi-Fi. Tricky, isn’t it? It wasn’t until this week when mine disappeared that I realised the visceral reaction my hand has to myContinue reading “Gossamer Echoes”
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An Ode to Faffing
Whilst I wish I had the talent to write a ‘proper’ ode of the poetic persuasion, alas I’m not quite there yet. However, despite my literary shortcomings, I felt that only by describing this little rumination as an ‘ode’ can I fully convey my depth of feeling on the matter. I’ve written before that IContinue reading “An Ode to Faffing”
Iris the Self-Confessed Luddite
Delving into the depths of my memory, I recently remembered a rather remarkable story I heard last year. I was talking to a woman (let’s call her Iris) whom I barely knew, who happened to casually reveal that she’d once met Tim Berners-Lee at a dinner party. As you do. Their meeting was prior toContinue reading “Iris the Self-Confessed Luddite”
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