David Thomson, reviewing two recent Cary Grant biographies for the London Review of Books: Dead at 82, Cary Grant had made 77 films. [But…] let’s say there are twenty or so pictures that are keepers. Then let’s add that in any one of those films he had 15 minutes of ambiguous splendour. That’s five hours… Continue reading Another sucker writes…
Month: October 2020
Team commuting
Driven mad by the way lockdowns have given Microsoft Teams a chance to snag a portion of the enterprise software market, it seems that Microsoft may have over-reached themselves if this Wall Street Journal article about changes to Teams is anything to go by: Microsoft Corp. is developing an update to its Teams package of… Continue reading Team commuting
Button pressed
I’m a tad unclear on whether building a device that lets you press a button in order to press another button is quite the great leap forward it’s being painted as here: I showed this to someone and they said, “So.. you built a button that you press that will press a button? Why not… Continue reading Button pressed