by Dave Porter | 12th September 2012
Beautiful, just beautiful, and packed with great features and great apps, I can’t wait to see it. Another splendid design from Jony Ive, who really is the best at this sort of thing, a Newcastle University graduate too!. Apple recruit the best people in the...
by Dave Porter | 11th September 2012
Two unique events are occurring in our household this week, two in three days actually. One was yesterday, it was Nick’s 18th birthday. It went well. Here is the birthday boy sampling a pint of real ale, my pint actually. He ordered a Peroni. My quality real ale...
by Dave Porter | 9th September 2012
The photo on the left was taken by Helen, probably in August 1995, Nick and his dad walking in the garden. Nick was about 11 months old then. The photo on the right was taken by Helen today, Sunday 9th September 2012, Nick and his dad walking in the garden. Nick will...
by Dave Porter | 8th September 2012
I like to read, especially on holiday when you can relax, soak up some sunshine and read a good book. Hardbacks are out, too heavy to hold up when you are lying on a sun bed, also why would you pay £20 for a book, when you could wait a few months and get the paperback...
by Dave Porter | 5th September 2012
It’s the run up to another American election, and Americans do some funny this at a time like this. In the year 2000, for instance, they narrowly voted for Al Gore as President, probably, but the voting was so close, and as they couldn’t figure out how to...
by Dave Porter | 4th September 2012
There was a time, in the early 1980’s, when if you were going out for a meal in Newcastle upon Tyne it really had to be Italian. Why? Because that’s all there was. There were plenty of restaurants to chose from, but they were all Italian, okay not quite...
