Tag: technology

May The Fifteenth Be With You: The Great Heep

‘The Great Heep’ is a bizarre entry into the Star Wars ‘back catalogue’. A feature length special of an already cancelled TV show, which very few people actually watched. It would be easy enough to have viewed this as just an extended episode of the aforementioned show, which I wrote about yesterday, as it seems…

Cookie Cravings

Dear Internet, please stop showing me All the stuff I could acquire It’s not that I don’t want it For you know that I aspire To wear those funky trainers And play with that new phone But I’m sure I can’t afford All these things I’d like to own And while I do agree That…

The Future Is Bright

The realities of a ‘post-truth’ world Are hard to distinguish from those Of the pre-truth world Worlds where we are bombarded by images Of things we neither want nor need Although On reflection Maybe we might need them And we do quite want them In fact, we can’t live without them But iThink iKnow what…

Double Digital Detox

Just over a year ago my phone decided to spontaneously combust. Up until that point it had been a functional but nonetheless unglamorous model of smart phone. It was the best one I’d ever owned, but significantly less good than the phones most other people seemed to own. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I’ve…