Mar
28
2007
My best friend Liz — we have been best friends for 35 years! — is interviewed and pictured in this front page story in today’s New York Times. Woo hoo! I am so proud, and prouder that Liz is the Breast MRI Director at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and one of the world’s [...]
Mar
23
2007
About a year ago I got this lovely big oak desk second hand through a friend. It has a little pull out drawer/shelf thingie for your computer keyboard. I am not sure if this is an innovation I care for as it is a bit awkward to use… made considerably more awkward by the fact [...]
Mar
21
2007
Every Monday evening I spend the last 30 minutes of Newstalk 106-108FM’s evening drivetime news programme, The Right Hook, talking to presenter and amiable curmudgeon George Hook about technology, a little gig I truly enjoy. Late last week a programme researcher rang me to tell me George and I were going in to check out [...]
Mar
21
2007
Sometimes the ease of getting stuff online, that is hard to find otherwise, amazes me. Not the rare collector tchotchkes you might be looking for on eBay, but something quite ordinary which might otherwise be hard to track down — especially these days, in a very throw-away society. Replacement parts to fix something, for example. [...]
Mar
19
2007
The Guardian has a funny short piece today about the 4% of 25-44 year olds in Britain who apparently (gasp!) do not yet own a mobile phone (statistics courtesy of OFCOM). This suggests there exists a small cabal of mobile-phone refuseniks, for whom shunning the mobile is nothing to do with being very old, very [...]
Mar
17
2007
According to SF mayor Gavin Newsom and Minister Martin Cullen, it should be possible to get on the plane in Dublin and get off right in San Francisco by the end of the year (that distant noise you hear is me running around the house shouting ‘woo hoo!’). This route has been mooted for a [...]
Mar
11
2007
A week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with 80+ degree days and warm Sea of Cortes waters and hot hot hot Mexican food, and I am a better woman. Give me a snorkel, tropical waters and a reef and I am a happy gal even if I do swallow a few mouthfuls of salt water [...]
Mar
01
2007
Tech companies, many of them big names, continue to feel the aftershocks of using some common but questionable techniques for accounting for executive share options, mostly in the dotcom era. The latest to say it will restate earnings is 3D software maker Autodesk while McAfee’s general counsel was indicted yesterday over the issue. And HP’s [...]