Yes, I have redesigned my archive pages—that is, the ones where all the entries apart from the most recent live, and the index pages for navigating between them. To see the new look you can visit the archive page for this entry. Read more
How do you get video from your old VHS tapes to your ultra-modern digital gadgets? SanDisk’s solution is a little gadget called a V-Mate: a little box with card-reader slots in the front and analogue TV connectors in the back. Read more
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Star Trek tells us more about American foreign policy than it does about the future. I have recently had occasion to read a couple of Trek novels for the first time in years and I find that the future society the stories has set in has become a nasty, cynical place in which the only thing you can depend upon is that female Vulcans are duplicitous and yet sexy evil-doers. Read more