by Jack Barrow | Aug 31, 2018 | Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
You clicked on that link on Facebook, you know that link, possibly clickbait but you wanted to see for yourself, after all it’s only a picture of an old shoe dug up from Roman times. But you don’t get the world’s most interesting shoe, you get a brief, tempting flash...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 15, 2018 | Magic, Science, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
In my coming travelogue (too long in the pipeline) I discuss two ways of looking at and dealing with the world, that I describe as rational and irrational approaches. The irrational approach is often described as magical thinking. Wikipedia defines magical thinking as...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 18, 2017 | Technology
I gave Edge a try a few weeks ago and found it wouldn’t do many of the things I used to do with IE, Firefox and other browsers. Notably you’ve taken away the favourites bar which features in every other browser I know. sod Then, after I’ve decided to...
by Jack Barrow | Jun 13, 2016 | Psychology, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
It’s new phone arrival day tomorrow and I’ve got to go into the office so I won’t be home when it arrives. Someone will take it in but I could have planned it better. I’m now wondering if new phone arrival day is a new cultural phenomenon that...
by Jack Barrow | Mar 26, 2014 | General Blog, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
I’m a bit of a fan of Formula 1 motor racing. I’ve been watching it on and off for many years, mostly off during the years of Schumacher/Ferrari domination. When one driver or one team becomes dominant it gets boring. I didn’t watch the last couple of...
by Jack Barrow | Nov 22, 2013 | Technology
I’ve long been troubled by the movement towards licensing the software that we all need to do business and, increasingly, to function in the modern world. The rise of the smart phone is only accelerating this with use of multiple devices, cloud services and the like....
