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British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
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Alistair Dabbs

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Alistair Dabbs is a freelance technology tart, juggling IT journalism, editorial training and digital publishing.

Master Beats: Why doesn't audio quality matter these days?

Monster Beats Pro
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Hear, there and everywhere
Returning from a school trip to New York, my son handed back most of the $350 spending money we’d given him. Yes, I too thought it was a lot of dosh for a four-day tour but then I have no experience in the matter. When I was a kid, a school trip involved walking up to the pond to catch tadpoles for biology class, not …
26 Apr 11:08

British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'

Spaced's Daisy Steiner
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
“My only real prediction is that it’s all changing.” Well, ask a stupid question - in this case, about the future of book publishing. The lobotomy-inducingly obvious answer was provided by author Neil Gaiman. If I’d written this prediction here on El Reg, I would have been derided as a time-waster specialising in stating the …
19 Apr 11:00

Oh S**T, here comes a ROBOT to take my JOB

Robo doggy doo
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Workers of the world, dump on your masters' doorsteps
The enormous lump of shit sat steaming directly outside the publisher’s door facing the first-floor landing, welcoming early morning office workers as they arrived with a cheeful “Hello! I’m a giant turd! And I smell really bad!” Each member of staff who had chosen to begin work at 7.30am that day reacted the same way: wrinkled …
12 Apr 11:04

The healing hands of guru Dabbs

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Something for the Weekend, Sir? I command you IT devil... get out!
A colleague strides purposefully across the open-plan office to the production desk. She has the wrinkled brow and wild eyes of someone who is simultaneously baffled and angry. She’s on deadline but her computer is “doing stupid things” and she doesn’t understand what or why or how to stop it. Oh no, I'll have to ask Dabbsy "Oh …
05 Apr 12:00

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

Personality glasses - Joe 90
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Everybody needs good technology loving neighbours
“My nephew bought me one of those iPad things for my birthday.” My heart sinks – I can already tell where this is going. I’m at a neighbour’s house party, the time is last summer, and one of the older partygoers is about to tell me that some new-fangled technology is too much for him to cope with now that he has reached the age …
29 Mar 12:04

Oi, Microsoft, where's my effin' toolbar gone?

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Something for the Weekend, Sir? How the browser buggered up application UIs
Half-life Wife is angry. She has begun swearing loudly through gritted teeth and is shaking her fist in a threatening manner. This, believe it or not, is a relief. Mrs D tends to not so much experience emotions as perform them, so the shaking fist is less a warning of intention, more the art of expression. And while I probably …
22 Mar 12:00

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