Throughout the course of the past week, I have saved about five unfinished columns to my Documents folder (which really should be renamed “Evidence of Writer’s Block”). They all, for lack of a better term, suck. So this afternoon, to dispel my moody self-pitying rants of “I suck as a writer”, I decided to put…
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While I wouldn’t necessarily describe myself as bookish, I do enjoy reading. Actually, I think I have a penchant for collecting books, rather than for reading itself – my “to read” pile is about ten books high and growing. I just like books – crisp new ones, musty old ones, tattered sad-looking ones. Also, I…
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That is the question. If there was one thing that Tron: Legacy taught me (apart from the fact that a film can still be awesome even though the plot is ridiculous and makes no sense), it’s that everyone has an opinion about this 3D business. Maybe it’s a fad or maybe it’s here to stay,…
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I recently spent a year living in Japan, and while much of my time was spent snoozing on trains, decoding the English language for Japanese salarymen and eating takoyaki, a fair portion of it was tied up with trying to keep in touch with people back home. This was both a comforting and painful endeavour,…
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Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. You know that when a website becomes a verb, it has become a phenomenon. For example, if there’s something you want to know, you ‘google’ it. If you want to connect with someone, you ‘facebook’ them. So, in light of The Social Network,…
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Would it be a bit too grand to say that text messages are part of the glue that holds our social lives together? Nay, that holds our lives together? Maybe that’s a little much, but let’s be honest – text messages play a pretty big role in your life, too. But is it actually easier…
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