I recently moved house and, while this entailed dealing with a whole litany of woes, the most damaging to my emotional and mental health was the loss of internet. Of course, you’re supposed to be able to move properties and have your web juice redirected without a hitch these days, but it doesn’t … [Read more...]
Dork Review: Nokia Booklet 3G
The Nokia Booklet 3G is Nokia's first mini-laptop, and another string to add to their mobile communications bow. As the name would suggest the Booklet comes equipped with 3G and Wi-Fi, and has up to 12 hours of battery time, so you can grab it for a day's work without dashing home for the charger … [Read more...]
Web addresses and emails are stealing my life
The news that URLs and emails will soon no longer be governed by the laws of western keyboards is exciting indeed. But who knows what kinds of meltdown it's going to cause in the brains of the country's normals. Normals, for those of you who haven't subscribed to "Katie's modern dictionary of … [Read more...]
How the internet is *totally* changing punctuation
I noticed it a while back when I used to lurk on the Popbitch board in order to see human interaction taking place (it was a bit quiet in our office and Twitter was years away). Punctuation marks I'd not seen used before started appearing in people's conversations, highlighting the moments when … [Read more...]
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