You got a new computer for Christmas. Congratulations.
You plugged it in, accessed the internet and found this post. Well done. You have just shown yourself to be adept at surfing the internet and found your way to one of the blogosphere’s more popular blogs.
Now for a question.
Mac or PC?
Got a Mac? Congratulations.
Got a PC? [...]

I’ll keep this short and to the point.
Thank you to everyone who has supported Upstart Blogger over the last 12 months, helping to make 2009 such a successful year.
And, if you are reading this on Christmas day, perhaps on a brand new machine, turn off, step away from the screen, and spend some time [...]

Anyone who has ever watch scheduled television knows how this works. The broadcaster advertises one program but then, usually for a completely innocuous reason like a minor technical fault, broadcasts another.
Yesterday I wrote 2 blog posts. And in 1 of those posts I said that today I would post a screen capture of a smoking [...]

As an independent musician I am acutely aware of the way the music industry is changing. The slow and steady demise of the record label as a concept is something that all independent musicians benefit from and I, like many of my peers, look forward to the day when full transparency exists between artist and [...]

Fail faster is a buzz phrase that is used with impunity and regularity by the kind of self appointed gurus who write the books that regularly jump to the top of the best seller lists all over the world.
Not because they are good books. But because they marketed by good marketers. And because the market [...]

I’m a big fan of the BBC. Their output is light years ahead of the commercial stations. Mainly because of the way they are funded, being completely detached from the need to please their advertisers.
Torchwood, Children of Earth, has just finished its 5 night run. The story, putting the plot holes that seem to plague [...]

A power surge hit our house over the weekend. It took out two kitchen appliances, the cooker and the dishwasher, and, more importantly because of the implications, two external hard drives that were plugged in at the time. The Macs are safe, as are most of the external drives, but two are fried [...]