I remember it well. It was 1994, and I was trying to explain the enormous potential of the internet to a sceptical friend. I could barely contain my enthusiasm. “It’s big, it’s global and it brings everything together,” I burbled. […]

Four things happened to me this week. OK, more than four things, but since you haven’t got all day, I’ll give you the short version. First, I hung out at Starbucks, which is better than any serviced office I’ve ever […]

My holiday in the sunny Dordogne is by now a distant memory. Well, almost. You see when I got back from France, I had a surprise. A nasty one. The car-hire charges came in at double what I was expecting. […]

Are you throwing money away? I am. For months now, I’ve known that I could get cheaper broadband. In these trying economic times, every penny counts – and we’re talking about pounds here. I know I could do it, and […]

Last year, somebody sent me flowers for my birthday. It was a lovely gesture, but it’s not the flowers that stick in my mind. Instead, it was the way they were delivered. Not by a surly, shaven-headed driver in a […]