The other day a friend asked me what “ROFL” meant. It’s IM-speak for “Rolling On the Floor Laughing” and I’ve just found a great place to use it. One of the more dubious privileges of running a business is that you meet quite a lot of marketing consultants who patronise you about your website/mailshots/adverts/blog and…

Jef Raskin, the original developer of the Macintosh, died on Saturday. Goodbye old friend (whom I never met, and knew only through your designs), and thank you for 20 years of pleasurable computing.

It was exactly 403 years to the day that Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary: …to the Opera, and there saw “Romeo and Juliet,” the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life… (full entry) Well, I beg to differ, Mr…

The BBC blithely reports Government spin that Asian and black pupils made the greatest rate of improvement in GCSEs in England last year. Underneath the headline, here are the proportions of students getting 5 or more Cs at GCSE, by race: Black Caribbean 35.7% Black African 43% Pakistani 45.0% White 52.3% Indian 66.6% Chinese 74.2%…

Just when we were all getting the idea that search tools are now so good they can replace hierarchical file systems, along comes Alex Bokov dreaming about what might replace search as our key tool for acquiring the knowledge we need… I think someday the internet experience will be streamlined to the following: You turn…