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I’ve been slogging my way through the corporate jungle for years, in search of the Elusive Work-Life Balance. Fighting off predators at every turn. Gritting my teeth through clouds of consultants so thick they’d suck you dry in a flash. An alligator – I think it may have been a client, but the details are [...]

They say a change is as good as a holiday. So then a new theme must be as good as a new phone? Well not quite, but it does go some way to freshening up the face of your trusted little companion.
It’s black, it’s back; you guessed it, black themes
Black never really went anywhere. It’s [...]

Among the major limitations of mobile computing is the life of the batteries. As our smartphones become more and more ingrained into our way of life, and as the amount of functions we rely on them to perform increases, there is plenty more demand on the tiny power source contained within the device. That limitation [...]

Remember the “old “days – this means roughly between 15 and twenty years ago- when if you were not near a landline no-one could get hold of you? Ah bliss, you might think. Some alone time at last!
But then you would probably start worrying about that long term yet very difficult client of yours or [...]

I remember my first cellphone well. It was a Nokia 1611. The size of a paving stone, and only fractionally more functionality. As a stay-at-home dad doing some freelance writing on the side, I would check it frequently, hoping it would ring. Which it didn’t. Not very often, anyway.
That was back in 1995. Ah, those [...]