Ah, Tomorrow's World was great, wasn't it? I could watch crazy people getting the future wrong all day. In the future we were to have everything; from jetpacks to sentient computers, Sinclair C5s to nuclear-powered hoovers. In a roundabout, disappointing way, that last one did actually happen.

...from time-to-time, the absence of Register-style judgement on the contents of a particular story is telling. Take this doozy, for example:UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-WoodExpensive blokes' jobs should be gendersourcedYou can kind've hear the the journalist stepping back. 'Whoa! I'm staying out of this one'.

Simple musings following Embedded World in Nuremberg and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Wow.... Once again Apple has proven that it's willing to play by no-one's rules. How has Apple responded to the weak pound and the worst recession of recent memory? By jacking up the prices of its hardware massively.

We're often reminded of the power of citizen journalism when delivered through a fast, democratised medium such as Twitter. This morning we were alerted to the crash of a Turkish Boeing 747 at Schiphol airport through Twitter way before the media cottoned on to it. When I checked, the Schiphol Twitterfall was still busy.