Rant

I saw a FT headline earlier saying that George Osborne was sticking to Plan A despite warning lights in the economy.

I'm sorry, but what is it that critics would like the government to do, exactly? Continue running a huge deficit? For what purpose? To finance our current lifestyles? To what end? A bankrupt nation for our children to inherit?

We're already spending more every day on interest repayments for our national debt than we are on schools.

Governments ...

The iPad doesn't have enough RAM.

What's the damage, 256MB? Damage being the operative word. My Safari on the Mac will happily chunk off a gig given a few tabs, clearly such a paltry amount of RAM for the whole device isn't going to cut it.

The result? When you've got multiple pages open and you're switching between them they keep refreshing. Now, all you hateful creatures on your 20mbps ADSL or even faster noodle optics from Virgin probably care very little about ...

For the longest time I stayed away from social networking. There was something about Facebook in particular that just stopped me cold. What I always preferred, and believed would be the 'next big thing' on mobile phones, is instant messaging and chat.

That didn't happen. Yes, IM exists, but it's my no means ubiquitous and, in my experience, a lot of the time being on a PC dominated IM network on a mobile phone is just inconvenient.

What happened instead was that social ...

Well, it's likely that folk who don't even own a computer know all about the 4th generation iPhone by now, courtesy of Gizmodo. The more I look at the pictures and videos the more I can appreciate the subtle design cues in this device, which is a marked departure from the current design ethos seen in the iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch, iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook. You get the idea; the removal of 'complex' curves from this prototype makes it stick out like a sore thumb in Apple's currently ...

I've been getting a lot of cases of card fraud originating from the US recently. There are many transaction attempts, in many different names and using many different cards, but most worrying is the increasing number that have passed Verified by Visa or Mastercard Securecode.

Known as Cardholder Authentication, this mechanism is supposed, like Chip and PIN, to take liability for fraudulent transactions away from the merchant. Unfortunately both place much of it with the account holder, ...