The final day’s shows were different, we tried to bring a touch of culture to the day, starting with a talk from Nicholas Carr at the Book Festival. Put simply, Carr believes the Internet is destroying our attention span, he thinks we are inadvertently ‘training’ ourselves out of being able to concentrate on longer tasks [...]

Day five, the day of the big headline gig. But to start we needed to warm up with something new. Caroline Mabey was a recommendation from last night, flyered with Josie Long’s show programme. Mabey greeted everyone at the door, handing out napkins in preparation for the show to come. She talked about breakfasts, using [...]

Day four, a four show day. Starting with It Is Rocket Science, Helen Keen’s one woman (plus shadow puppeteer) show all about rockets. Helen is charming throughout and clearly knows something about rockets, but the jokes fall a bit flat and she doesn’t connect with the audience. I’d have preferred she give a straight lecture, [...]

Day three, we’ve made it to day three, that’s exciting! It was a slower day today, only two shows but they were both big names. We kick off with Kevin Eldon titting about. He really does tit about, right there on stage, pulling half a dozen characters out of the bag throughout. Paul Hamilton (Kevin’s [...]

After Josh Howie saved our Monday we continued the curly haired middle-aged theme with Andy Zaltzman. Andy told us about the life changing impact that delivering your own child has on a person, I don’t doubt it. The show was full of satire and cricket references (as is Zaltzman’s style), a sure hit with any [...]

We travelled to Edinburgh on the flying scotsman (which is disappointingly just a regular diesel train), the journey meanders through beautiful countryside (and for a brief time Newcastle) so is really very pleasant. First impressions of Edinburgh are very confusing; it’s one big hill with lots of levels, making finding anywhere in a lot less [...]

I bought an iPad. Now, in light of the last time I wrote about this device that may seem a little hypocritical, but let me explain…I wanted one. And I’m surprised at how useful this thing actually is. When 90% of what you’d use a computer for is Internet-based while sitting in front of the [...]

Originally published on the Blue Hive blog as part of Digital Honey. We got in touch with our inner fashionista this week and took a look at the brilliant Westfield Fashion Detector. Have you ever been browsing Facebook photos, jealously eying up your friend’s new jacket? Or been walking down the street and spotted your [...]

The Decode exhibit (V&A museum until 11th April) is a wondrous collection of interactive and visually stunning exhibits. Sold as a showcase of “the latest developments in digital and interactive design” it’s full of beautiful, immersive installations. The exhibition features some of the world’s premiere ‘interactive artists’, including Golan Levin and Aaron Koblin, and it [...]

We’re seeing the slow and inevitable death of IE6. At last. Latest figures put it at an ever decreasing 20% market share. It’s got us a long way but the new kids on the block need to take over now. We need a web full of modern browsers, HTML5 and CSS3 compliance is the future, [...]