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The Studio: Brilliant Cast, Big Laughs And Hollywood Meltdowns

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The Gorilla Who Was Brought up as a Boy in an English Village

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Tree Spirits And Good Fortune: The Beautiful Ghosts Who Protect Thailand’s Forests

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The Strange And Hopefully Fun Future Of AI NPCs – Is Gaming Getting Interactive?

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The Paper Review: A New Office-Style Sitcom About Newspapers

Morning Writing Routine: Why 6 AM May Be Your Creative Sweet Spot

My Favorite Writing Software After 30+ Years In Journalism & Publishing

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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The great AI race is now on

ward 14/09/2017

These days the news is full of stories about the rise of AI. Well, Trump, North Korea, Brexit and AIs. Everything is basically alarming and it is hard to know what to be most shit scared about next.

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Scottish iPhone 4s

ward 02/02/2012

I wrote recently about some pranksters reprogramming an iPhone 4s in a shop so that it swore at a kid. It was pretty damn funny. I then talked about Siri … Read More

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iPhone 4S swears at a kid

ward 02/01/2012

  After the misery of my last post where I simply listed what happened last year, I thought I would start 2012 off with an amusing local story. In a … Read More

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