“Rivals” — a quick guideA new TV adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, for Disney+, has gone down extremely well with the critics and I finished watching the…Oct 23Oct 23
Mid-career artistryI picked up this month’s ArtReview last week. It’s easily the world’s greatest art magazine and this issue’s cover stars at Holly Herndon…Oct 22Oct 22
The AI infrastructure opportunities of Slough: a poemThere was an article in El Reg this morning entitled The role of Slough in AI infrastructure. Slough, for the uninitiated, is a town…Oct 151Oct 151
Restarting The Computer ProgrammeIn the early 1980s, the BBC made several series of programmes regarding what were called, at the time, microcomputers. They were…Oct 14Oct 14
This week’s mix: hip hop 1998–91This week’s mix is bittersweet for me. At some stage I had to make a mix of hip hop tracks from 1988 to 1991, as it is a period of music…May 15May 15
What Alanis Morrissette can tell us about AII was reflecting on life’s ironies recently, thinking about the clouds that puncture the sunshine, and the toothache felt through the…Apr 8Apr 8
Pipemania: what René Magritte tells us about AIYou have probably seen this image before. La Trahison des Images, or “The tyranny of images”, was painted by French surrealist painter René…Feb 25Feb 25
Uzbek Pepsi, and creative high-points in advertisingThe dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a geopolitical rupture of a scale not to be experienced again in our lifetime. This…Jan 23Jan 23
Online publishers have poisoned the InternetOnce a day, I quickly skim my Google News homepage. There is usually something of marginal-to-slight interest, and thus worth clicking…Nov 13, 2023Nov 13, 2023