Jun 15 2026
Imagine you buy a hammer. You take it home, you put it in your toolbox, and you use it to smash nails into pieces of wood. It is your hammer. You paid for it. Then, a few years later, a man in a grey suit from the hammer company knocks on your door, walks into your shed, …
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May 23 2026
It is no secret that I have been a fan of Pages, and I am always trying to convince people that Microsoft Word (in most cases) is something you just don’t need. Despite my best efforts, though, there are still those that think that Word is the only processor out there, that it is needed …
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Apr 10 2026
In 2020, Apple did something truly remarkable. They decided that Intel—the company that has provided the “brains” for every serious computer since the dawn of time—was no longer invited to the party. They launched their own “M-series” chips, and to make sure the transition didn’t cause a global productivity meltdown, they gave us Rosetta 2. …
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Apr 10 2026
You’ve just sat down in the upstairs study with a gin and tonic, ready to watch a high-definition documentary about the history of the stapler. You click ‘Play,’ and what do you get? A spinning circle. A little grey ring of misery that tells you the internet, which you pay a king’s ransom for every …
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Mar 07 2026
The world, as we know it, is currently full of people trying to sell us things we do not want. If you are standing in a queue for a coffee, someone will try to sell you a pension. If you open your physical letterbox, you will be buried under five kilograms of glossy paper telling …
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