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Talking-point pen

October 09 2 Comments Category: Culture, Personal, Technology

I spend most of my time at my computer. And now that I have push email on my phone, it’s like I’m carrying around a baby monitor, constantly listening out for the gurgling of an inbox or the wailing of an unread RSS reader.
So it felt very strange indeed to shut down my computer, as [...]

Luddite to lady

March 24 6 Comments Category: Technology

I’ve been using Twitter for about three years now and have never, in that time, been approached by anyone urging me to ‘tweet’. In fact, I think the only conversations I’ve had on the topic have been with sceptics, urging me to stop. So, where this fear comes from – that one day soon ‘Tweeps’ all over the world will rise up and force us to open accounts and update them with the oft and ill quoted “I’m having a sandwich” line – is something of a mystery to me.