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Let me open by saying I'm writing this on my iPad.

I don't often write at any length on here. This, I believe, is more to do with my situation rather than the tablet itself. Right now I'm on the sofa, definitely tablet territory of the future, but most of the time I'm sat at a desk or table and in such scenarios the benefits of a tablet are deminished in the face of a sleek, modern, flash based laptop like the MacBook Air.

The tablet, then, frees us from the desk. ...

There's a theme that has driven me all my life. At nursery school I'd connect together all the toys. The staff said this wasn't a problem in itself, but it did become problematic when, post connection, I'd disallow any of the other children to play with them. Paper cups and string. Fairy lights were amazing to me; all those little bulbs connected up together. When a friend, for reasons that still escape me, was given a pager by his parents I was truly misty-eyed and, admittedly, incredibly jealous ...

Despite its massive success a lot of people still struggle with finding a use for Twitter. Facebook is such an obvious social tool but, for an outsider looking in, Twitter is cloaked in mystery. In fact, once 'in' people I speak to often find it just as mystifying!

I struggled with the concept at first. Ok, I can 'follow' people, which seems a bit like subscribing to an RSS feed. They say it, I see it. That doesn't sound very interactive or addictive. People can follow me, seeing ...

It's a reasonable expectation that PCs aren't going to change a great deal. It's likely that they'll continue to get incrementally better, but without evolving into something revolutionary themselves.

At the same time, an increasing number of PC functions are being farmed out to dedicated devices. Convergence is no longer the buzzword in PC land - divergence has well and truly taken over as we realise that specialised hardware is much better at doing certain tasks than a beige box ...

I could've sworn blind that by now almost every laptop rolling off of the production lines would have a SIM slot as standard. Like WiFi, 3G connectivity would become the norm, and new tariff structures from mobile operators would have made connectivity accessible to all.

That hasn't happened. Is it because people don't want or need a continuous Internet connection when they're mobile? No, I don't think that's true - if 3G were ubiquitous then we'd all just connect and make the most ...