A week ago exactly, I was on a train travelling from Bodmin Parkway (Yes, there's a station called Bodmin Parkway: you can look it up) to London Paddington. The scenery was divine, I'd just had a very pleasant visit with a relative of mine, and all was w… more »

That's a picture I took the other day wandering down London's Oxford Street*. I'd quite forgotten about the fashion of throwing in "freebies" with mobile phone contracts, something that was in vogue in the Australian market some years back and tended to… more »

A slight departure from the usual Carry fare, but then again anything that's in a box has reason to be carried, and therefore it counts. Because I say so!As a busy product reviewer, I open a lot of boxes. Easily hundreds if not thousands every year.… more »

As I write this, I'm just back from watching my daughter perform at the end of a band camp where she learned several new tunes, and then performed them (as part of the school band) in front of a crowd of parents. To say I'm a proud parent right now might… more »

I attended the launch this week of Telstra's latest USB Modem, the dual-channel HSPA+ capable so-called "Ultimate USB" modem, something I've written up over at Gizmodo.The Ultimate USB is a chunky little fella that I'm still in the middle of testing… more »