I still find voicemail useful but only in short message format, that is "this is my name, this my number, give me a call." I can't abide the callers though who are determined to cram what amounts to their life story into a voicemail message. Is that why people are giving up on it, in favour of text messages or e-mails instead? In today's busy, busy world of instant ... Read full entry

The latest street danger? Walking and texting Brick Lane in London now has padded lampposts to help prevent injury to those who feel the need compose text massages while actually walking. There are those who believe that the pattern etched by humanity across the great book of world history is one of linear progression. Of improvement. Of advance. Of some nebulous but discernible form of betterment. Those are the people who ... Read full entry