The dust has settled, the iPad candles have tapered out and a-man-who-employed-more-creative-people-to-put-his-ideas-into-action has gone away; away to a most uncertain fate.
Yes, Steve Jobs is dead. He once called death a great invention. Hopefully he is still of that view, but none of us know. I searched in vain for an ironic tribute in UK magazine Private Eye, but even that esteemed organ seemed to think that was beyond them. His death seemed too holy to satirise. Continue reading
The dust has settled, the iPad candles have tapered out and a-man-who-employed-more-creative-people-to-put-his-ideas-into-action has gone away; away to a most uncertain fate.
Yes, Steve Jobs is dead. He once called death a great invention. Hopefully he is still of that view, but none of us know. I searched in vain for an ironic tribute in UK magazine Private Eye, but even that esteemed organ seemed to think that was beyond them. His death seemed too holy to satirise. Continue reading
Earlier this week I did something I haven’t done for around three years and for the salacious among you I am talking about cameras and not anything else, you filthy-minded creatures.
Yes, I used a camera. Not an old Olympus SR or a wonderful Leica, but just a bog-standard digital camera as we lit the cake for my son’s birthday party. How weird not to use a mobile, or to call it by its 2011 name, a smartphone. Continue reading
Apparently our smartphones now have more computing power than NASA had when it sent a man to the moon in 1969. Or as one wag commented recently on Twitter… they launched a man to the moon, we launch birds into pigs. Continue reading
Earlier this week so-called graphic footage emerged of an Australian 16-year-old fighting back against a bully after being repeatedly punched in the face.
The video was filmed by the bully’s consorts and it seems the bullying of this boy was an everyday occurence. It was only when the ‘victim’ threw his tormentor to the ground that the video took on a new life, going viral with the appearance of many satirical videos emulating our victim’s actions. Continue reading