Essential iPhone Apps Roundup

Having had the iPhone 3g for yonks now, I thought it’d be a good idea to share my thoughts on some of the best programmes I’ve enjoyed using over the past short while.  i’ll try to stick to the functional and the fun. Essentials Apple-sanctioned...

Prince Harry and those comments

I’ve been thinking about the comments HRH Prince Henry of Wales reportedly made three years ago whilst an officer cadet.  Whilst it is not true that this issue is unimportant, as the anti-PC crowd suggests, the importance of the comments in the context of their...

Official Beta of Windows 7

So, here it goes; finally I got a slot in the Windows 7 Beta Programme download queue, all that remains now is to download it, install it and have some fun with it.  Thanks, Microsoft!  I suspect this might actually get installed on my EeePc as well! Apologies for...

My dog, Finn, is dead.

It’s with great sadness that I must report the death of my gorgeous and loving big black collie/retriever cross Finn.  Finn, who was originally called Pippin and was almost named Flash for the single shock of white hair under his chin, will be terribly missed by...

Morning after pills and women confuse Vatican.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, (the rebranded Holy Office of the Inquisition) appears to have rather spectacularly trapped itself in its own burning strawman, in its latest Dignitas Personae.  By arguing that taking the morning-after pill is...