Archive for April, 2008
In language you’ll understand…
Saturday, April 12th, 2008From the I-hate-subeditors department
I read a headline on the ABC today: “Study paves way for 500,000-song MP3 player“. It caught my eye: was this some amazing new technology that was only good for storing compressed music files?
No, they’re just dumbing-down a technology article so that ‘the masses’ understand it.
What’s worse is that the technology in [...]
On being “mate”
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Growing up, my Dad always called me ‘mate’. It’s interesting now that I have a son (I have a son! Wow!) that I find myself doing the same thing: I call Jack ‘mate’ all the time.
On the left you’ll see a picture of Dad messing about with my nephew, Toby. Of course, dad never met [...]