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I’ve been reading Kate Fox’s Watching The English recently. Well, for quite a while actually – I read slowly. It’s an anthropological look at English culture, and as an Englishman I find that an interesting topic.

My opinion of the book and its author has been somewhat mercurial, as her almost-invariably astute observations are fascinating and entertaining, yet I frequently disagree (taking inspiration purely from my own personal experience) with her assumptions as to the reasons for English behaviour. Read the rest of this entry »

Once upon a time (well, 9th November 2007 to be precise), Rowan got an iPhone. And he blogged about it. Twice. Some time later (July 2008), he tried to get a swanky new iPhone 3G, without much luck. He blogged about that, too. Finally, he got one. Phew! So, not wanting to break with tradition, he blogged about that as well. Here goes… Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sitting in front of the telly, watching (on my shiny cable on-demand system) BBC3’s new drama, The Things I Haven’t Told You. The Radio Times amusingly described it as another tepid drama pilot where the brief was most likely: “Make it like Skins. But you know, different.” Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to add a little extra to my post on using and owning an iPhone. All I said there still applies, but there’s a couple of things I didn’t mention.

I ranted about how wonderful an Internet experience iPhone provides, and that’s absolutely true. The one thing which has come under a lot of criticism is the lack of 3G. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been about a week and a half since I got my hands on my iPhone. It’s certainly got more attention than any other gadget I’ve ever bought (though there’s been just as many cries of ‘tart’ and ‘mug’ as there have oohs and aahs!), and I certainly enjoy using it. But like anything, it isn’t so black and white…

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