So when I was learning to write English, back in the eighties, I used to mix up the symbols b and d. It’s an easy mistake to make – they’re mirror images and I had 24 other squiggles to learn. Somebody (pretty sure it was my sister or possibly a teacher) helpfully pointed out that [...]
If you’re interested in online privacy issues, you may have read about Phorm, the company that gets your web usage data from ISPs in order to show you contextual advertising. Recently I’ve been contributing to a blog called Future Music Lab along with some colleagues from the music, media and online industries. One of my [...]
Contrary to some inspirational self-help guff out there, there is a time when one should quit. But like Edison and his lightbulb and Moses in the wilderness, this ain’t it. Despite the clear lack of any other similarity between me and those guys, this post is about that. Today’s blog post is about carrying on. [...]
Language is important. Recently I found George Orwell’s seminal essay Politics and the English Language online, originally written in 1946. I’d heard of it before but never thought to track it down. Here’s some of the intro: Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it [...]
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