In Thursday’s Grauniad there was an article about the recent sale of 72 “Eurofighter” war machines aircraft to Saudi Arabia. I suppose I knew that the government (no matter which party’s in power) is heavily involved in “helping” arms trade. But it’s the sort of thing you don’t think about day-to-day. It’s shocking—so why isn’t [...]

I very rarely bother to use the camera on my mobile, for two reasons: firstly, the camera is crap; secondly, people taking photos on their phone kind of annoys me. It’s irrational, but it does. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I was visiting a friend who lives not too far from East Finchley tube [...]

The WWDC coverage at Engadget is pretty good, with lots of pictures. Basically, we’ve got up to 3GHz dual dual-core Xeon (Woodcrest) Mac Pros, Xeon Xserves coming in a couple of months, and some info about what’s going to be in Leopard. Notably cool things under that last heading include: “Spaces” (a very polished-looking implementation [...]