This year Big Brother rolled out its uber-trashy all-seeing televisual eyes amidst a welter of warnings - ‘kiss goodbye to your summer’ cried everyone from Heat magazine to BB’s own increasingly cartoonish Davina McCall. There’s a grain of truth in that, at least for those of us who can’t be bothered putting up an [...]

This morning I was sitting on the bus, listening to <nme mode>Wildhearts’ frontman Ginger’s confessional rock opus Valor Del Corazon</nme mode> (because nothing says ‘commute’ like a double album about your wife leaving you on account of your heroin habit), thinking about the differences between CDs and mp3s. And how heroin habits are a bit [...]

I spend a lot of time in the company of computers. I’ll happily profess that I know a thing or two about how they work, and then more often than not will regret doing so because whoever’s on the end of my professing will immediately ask me to fix the problem they’ve got with their [...]