by Jack Barrow | Jan 3, 2019 | Social Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
I can now reveal, it’s official, Facebook are actually evil. I’m not just talking about the misuse of your personal data, possibly allowing foreign powers to interfere with democratic processes or even all those pictures of cats. Worse than that, if you allow them to,...
by Jack Barrow | Oct 15, 2018 | General Blog, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
I don’t visit my friends any more. When I were a lad we used to have callers. We had a living room with the TV and the coal fire, it was somewhere to live and entertain. When people arrived, the TV would be turned off and the kettle would be turned on. Years ago,...
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...
