... is increasingly looking like a columnist whose subject has deserted him. Check out his latest piece of vacuous nonsense:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6973069.stm
I used to enjoy his Bill Board column on the BBC website but it has become increasingly irrelevant of late, and now this? A homily to his own milestone *shock horror* five years of BBC columns ...
Quote:
Sometimes I manage to surf the zeitgeist with the consummate ease of a native-born Hawaiian, drawing people's attention to issues that might otherwise have gone unnoticed - like the way software developers disclaim liability, recently highlighted in a report from the House of Lords, or the security problems that can face smug Mac users. At other times I call it wrong, most notably when I refused to accept that Apple's Steve Jobs was serious about moving away from digital rights management for songs sold through the iTunes music store, or when I claimed that wi-fi wasn't going to change the world.
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Is it just me, or is there a yawning gap between the magnitude of his 'successes' and his 'failures'?