Author: Tom Goskar
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HTC Desire and Android 2.3 Gingerbread
I have had an original unlocked and unbranded HTC Desire for more than a year, and it’s still a very fast and capable smartphone. HTC were quick to upgrade it from 2.1 to 2.2 Froyo, and getting those new features have helped to keep the phone ‘fresh’, as it were, for the first six months…
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Nine months with an Apple Magic Trackpad
As of this week, Apple will be offering customers of new desktop Macs the choice of either a Magic Trackpad or a Magic Mouse for no extra cost. Multitouch is here to stay. Since I first saw a multitouch device, the original iPhone, I have always wanted to see more multitouch technology find its way…
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Cornish Choughs in West Cornwall
in CornwallTwo weeks ago I was in the St Just area for a week back in Cornwall, recharging my batteries – a much needed holiday. It’s such a beautiful area; moors, tors, megaliths, wooded valleys, azure seas, granite houses, amazing wildlife, and of course, Cornish choughs. On our first day there Tehmina and I went for…
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Railway Signal Failure in Cardiff 22nd March 2011
in TravellingI write this as I sit on the train rolling through the north Wiltshire downs. I have been travelling since 6am this morning. Glancing at the clock, it is currently 1pm. By the time I reach Salisbury I will have been travelling in some form or another for 7 and a half hours. So what…
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The Coalition Government want to sell off all English forests
in Real LifeI am positively boiling with anger. I write this as a person who is normally one of the most laid-back and calm people you could wish to meet. Why? I have just read in the Guardian that the current UK coalition government are seriously suggesting that all English forests should be sold off. That’s all…
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Astonishing music: Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come
in MusicThose who know me well know that I have a penchant for liking strange and experimental electronic music. Not any old electronic music, but truly challenging uses of synthesizers and processed sounds, especially produced between the mid 1960s and mid 1970s. Synths were new instruments back then, and many of the kinds of sounds that…
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Jacob Von Hogflume
in EccentricityJacob Von Hogflume, originally uploaded by Squirmelia. I can’t help but chuckle each time I see this. I wonder when and where and else he lived? (Spoiler: Find out about the mad geniuses behind these signs)
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Moving to Swansea
in SwanseaAfter a year living in London, and enjoying its multifarious opportunities, Tehmina and I have moved again. We have left the country. England, that is. Our new home is Swansea, in Wales. Tehmina has started a new job at the University of Swansea’s Department of History and Classics looking at the “local and global worlds…