“King Lear” Review
Being a little squeamish, I’ve always had a problem with Lear. It’s that scene. Gloucester’s eyes. “Out vile jelly.” But having lit a production of the show and therefore been […]
iPlayer for iPad Is Three Features Away From Useful
A week ago, the BBC launched iPlayer for iPad onto the App Store. I’ve played with it a little bit, and the interface is superb, so lightweight you almost don’t […]
“As You Like It” Review
The RSC’s “As You Like It” at the Roundhouse gets better when the action hits Arden, but while the production gets better, the play rather fizzles out. The opening of […]
Object Oriented Storytelling
Fiction subclasses reality, overriding certain methods and implementing the interfaces of genres. I touched in a post yesterday on the boundaries of the fiction within a story, the fact that fictional […]
The Physics of Storytelling
Arthur Dent once fell our of a cup suspended thirteen miles above ground level. The cup, explained the bird who had caught him, was held in 13 miles above the […]
The Retweet Correction
I’ve got an idea for how Twitter should fix the reweet. Currently there are two ways to reweet (ie repeat a twitter message to share it with your followers) and […]
“Dirk Gently” Review
“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.” That quote, […]
Why would I want an iPad with no USB port…?
I’m will get round to doing giving my thoughts on the iPad one of thee days (such as they are). This is a bit of a tangential rant. I get […]
“Misfits” Episode 1 Reviewlet
I saw Howard Overman’s Vexed at about the same time I heard about the Dirk Gently adaptation he’s written (the one that’s on tomorrow night). Vexed had a peculiar mixed […]
“Romeo and Juliet” Review
Went to see the RSC Romeo and Juliet at the Roundhouse on Saturday. There’s a lot of energy in the opening, the “do you bite your thumb” gang wars shattering […]
Letting the iPhone and iPad Off the Leash
It’s the cable to the computer that’s holding Apple’s mobile devices back. You still need to plug them into a computer for two (or three) reasons: to backup and to […]
The Man Who Didn’t Tweet Twice
When I joined Twitter around 9 months ago, I joined twice. My rationale for this was that I wanted to use it for creating a network of work contacts and […]