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 [...]

Coconut Boy

February 02 0 Comments Category: Personal

While other mums worry about their sons turning to drugs, getting their girlfriends pregnant or joining some sort of gang, mine is concerned with matters more spiritual. (Besides, I don’t have a girlfriend, I’m a responsible member of an online community and I just turned down a line of coke because I had a “terrible [...]