Moving on
It’s time to give you up. To let go. To say goodbye. You were first there when I was about 10, taking me to cubs behind my dad. That was so cool. (It wasn’t, of course.) You were a clapped-out…
Paul Clarke
The People Photographer
Paul Clarke
The People Photographer
Seven rules for meeting up
(Meeting up, as in meeting me. You know, like a date, or a coffee – a “catch-up”, or whatever. There’s no good general word for all of those, I think. Meeting up will have to do. Anyway – these are…
Flappy Bird – actual strategies
(I can’t believe I’m writing about this.) Back in the day, as an obsessed martial artist (yes, really – it was a LONG time ago) I used to go on these full-on intensive training weekends. Starting Friday night, going on…
Dis Harmoni
If you need a GP out of hours, you might end up on the receiving end of services from Harmoni. Harmoni run the weekend GP service in my area. When I needed them, a few weeks back, I was initially…
Five questions for Identity Assurance
We’re getting closer to the launch of the government’s “identity assurance” (IDA) service – providing a way of confirming that people are who they say they are online, when they interact with government services. There’s much on the IDA team’s…
This makes you part of the problem, Itsu
Pret used to do it. Maybe they still do. They had little stickers on their tills saying it was a “Nightmare!” that they had to add on tax to their hot food sales. Oh yeah, same founder, innit? Remind me…
Friendly advice
I’d be hopeless as a politician. Retreat to rational debate gets you precisely nowhere when you’re up against the gong-clangers and firestarters of the populist mob-stirrers. So it’s with some mixed feelings that I write about an utterly bizarre story…
The two lessons I remember most
I was thinking the other day about the things I learned at school that were really worth learning. Not the history dates, nor the chemistry formulae. Not even the mysteries of iron ore mining at Kiruna. (Gratuitous reason to use…
The offer
He came to me at dawn, from the fog. Stood beside me. Said: “This I can offer…” “Time: four hours more a day, yours to enjoy. Take your lost mornings back. Many evenings too. And more…relief from sickness, headache, insomnia,…
Roll up, roll up…
…for all the fun of the fair There’s a good chance you’ll see something today, if you haven’t already, about a pseudonymous online character for whom life seems to have taken a very recent and very awkward turn. This character…
About me, but not of me?
No man is an island,Entire of itself.Each is a piece of the continent,A part of the main. Bear with me here. Lots of agitation at the moment about the prospect of our health records being flogged to the highest bidder…
High speeeed data
A few quick notes after my first month-and-a-bit as a field-triallist* for EE of their 4G mobile data service. After Andrew Grill had a rough experience trying to be a 4G early adopter, he worked with EE to try and…