Apple can sometimes overdo the minimalism. I bought a SuperDrive to go with my new MacBook Air. I plugged the drive into the laptop. Nothing came up on my screen to suggest that the drive had been mounted. I inserted a CD. The CD whirred a bit and came out again. The MacBook Air seemed [...]

I remember reading, in pre internet days, more than one article suggesting that the newspaper of the future would be a sort of smorgasbord in which the reader would choose the columnists and features he liked best from, say, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the FT, and have them collated in a single, tailor-made [...]

A link to my piece on the Indian Pacific, which went online at the weekend.

My favourite comment on Australia’s recent weather, from Bill Leak, cartoonist at The Australian: