In my previous editorial I compared my daughter's early behaviour to that of a simple computer program. A few people got in touch and called me a nerd. Can't think why. What quickly became apparent, though, ...

It's probably the longest ever gap between editorials on IT Reviews, but this time I have a better excuse than previous occasions when the editorial lunch stretched to rather more than the statutory three hours: I ...

Astronauts often say is that looking down on this planet from space makes them realise just how small and fragile the Earth really is. It forces them to question humanity's relentless exploitation of natural resources, its ...

The author Robert Heinlein once wrote that politics is scarcely less important than one's own heartbeat. I never believed it when I was younger, thinking that the actions of those old men and women in Westminster ...

Where climate change is concerned, I, like many people, am a complete hypocrite. I have enough of a scientific background to know that human activity is changing the composition of the atmosphere and affecting heat transfer ...

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever proved that printer manufacturers have kept the prices of ink cartridges artificially high. There was an EU investigation a few years ago and wrists were briefly slapped ...

Some of you may be aware of the current fuss about the possibility of a perpetual motion machine (even better than that, in fact; a perpetual energy machine with a net power output) that a small ...

Walking home along Brighton beach-front, late on Saturday night, my wife and I saw what looked like a corpse, or perhaps a drunk. As we got closer, however, we saw that the corpse was moving. It ...

A few weeks ago my cousin and her children were very lucky to escape from a house fire that destroyed everything they owned. They literally had nothing left but the clothes they were standing in. If ...

We've just reviewed an MP3 player, aimed at children, which has a maximum sound output level of 60dB. The marketing blurb behind this idea is that it helps prevent damage to hearing, which is likely to ...

Readers with long memories might be aware that I have never found my perfect PDA. My requirements, as specified in a previous editorial, were for it to have a keyboard, a reflective/transflective screen, a long battery ...

Project Management is big business. Qualified and experienced consultants can rake in thousands of pounds per day, by speeding through business changes that might otherwise take much longer to implement. But often there's a price to ...

I have a couple of friends who have tried Internet dating, with varying degrees of success. They've met some interesting people, but those people have rarely been much like their profiles on the dating sites. This ...

A large poster in a railway station, depicting a cornfield on a sunny day with some of the corn stalks pressed flat in the shape of the letter 'i'. Caption: "I checked my balance here." Interesting. ...

As some of you have pointed out to me via e-mail, it's been a while since I last posted an editorial column. This is for several reasons: 1) I was lazing around on the beach for ...

I missed a trick with my last editorial. Instead of storing that sort of transaction information on your mobile phone, it makes far more sense to store it on an ID card linked to a central ...

One of the trials of being a human is that you can't trust other humans, at least not until you've got to know them, and sometimes not even then. People you meet may well be lovely ...

As the editor of this site, you might think that I have the latest computer equipment and bleeding edge office software. You'd be wrong. I realised long ago that any time-saving features offered by a new ...

One of the nice things about living by the coast and running your own business is that you can take the afternoon of your birthday off and sit on the beach in the Spring sunshine. Don't ...

A letter dropped through my letterbox the other day. Nothing surprising in that, obviously, but the envelope of this one caught my eye. On it was written, in large letters, "Will you send a blind child ...