I’ve written about this before, but in the light of the US Supreme Court striking down the Defence of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and the recent demonstrations against the legalization of same sex marriage in France, it needs…
Month: June 2013
Who’s worse, the NSA or the Chinese?
Against the background of the revelation of the National Security Agency’s Prism program, spying on the world’s electronic communications, two very different publications in the past few days have illuminated government control, or attempted control, of the online world, one…
Flawed Apple TV update
Here’s the way the Unofficial Apple Weblog describes the update: Apple announced today that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available on the Apple TV. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said that “HBO GO…
Book review: “Inferno”
The first thing that has to be said about “Inferno” is that it is much better than Dan Brown’s last effort, the disappointing “The Lost Symbol”. Inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, “Inferno” takes symbologist Robert Langdon on a tour of…
ios Office crashed and took my whole file
Yesterday Microsoft suddenly released Office for ios, long rumored, long dismissed by Microsoft. I immediately installed it on my iPad so I could test it for a blog review, this review. And when I was done, doing some final editing…
Report from the cord-cutting front
We’re officially cord-cutters now. Actually, we technically cut the cord at the beginning of the year, when our Comhem cable TV subscription ended, and we had actually stopped watching the cable programs way before then. What we’ve had since last…