Oddly enough, I haven’t owned a computer for the last two years. Ever since the very grim and very heavy Dell desktop that I bought from a second hand shop in Madrid started making a dim mangling noise, in 2008, I’ve relied on a combination of my work laptop and my iPhone. But along with my entry card, my discounted gym...

Anyone who buys second hand books online through Abe Books probably knows a few things about the service. Firstly that their books (they are sourced from second hand book shops all over the country) are enormously cheap; secondly that the postage can often cost twice the amount that you are paying for the title itself, and thirdly that...

I’ve decided to move my blogging from Wordpress to this Posterous site. My Digital Notebook, my last website, was primarily set up to accompany my job as Online Content Editor and then Head of Publishing and Projects at a search agency in the West End. It has lasted for about a year and a half and I have used it as an intermittent...