Old uses for modern words – Phase2: May 2012
Upgrade – going to big school for the first time Pixel – one of Bob Geldof’s daughters Byte – what dogs do! KB – a poor counterfeit of a peanut brand MB – nearly an honour from the queen GB
Old uses for modern words:: April 2012
Apple Mac – a waterproof covering to keep your fruit dry Podcast – shelled peas Internet – where Yorkshire fishermen keep their catch Digital switchover – manually changing the channel
The cost of the waves: March 2012
ATDI has been proud to help Britain’s favourite charity cut its costs (and I’m not putting ATDI and RNLI in the same sentence because that just looks like a bad hand at Scrabble). It’s tough running
Blogging marvellous: March 2012
Vibrating Tattoo…I thought at first that that might the name of a dodgy heavy metal band I saw one drunken night at a questionable venue in the 80s. Turns out it’s Nokia’s new patent. The Finnish
Boxers, lawyers and fighters: February 2012
Did anybody else think that that brawl between David Haye and Dereck Chisora looked like the physical equivalent of all those big companies currently in court over patent disputes? The two types of clashes
Going green (while we still can): February 2012
Human deaths in the billions, irreversible climate change and the curtailing of the Earth’s ability to support life. Wow, sounds like a poster for a straight-to-DVD science fiction film. I wish it was.
So help me: January 2012
Why are those numbers on which we can contact big companies called helplines? See if this one sounds familiar. You call a corporation’s “support” people with your query and have a profitable chat
Welcome Home: January 2012
It’s a new year (yes, we spotted that). Is this your first year of working mainly from home? ATDI has long since embraced this wonderful liberation; when people are freed from daily travel to an office,
Show us your crystal balls: December 2011
If I could see into the future, I’d do the lottery more often. If the journalists on Forbes magazine could see into the future, they’d make enough money so they could stop being journalists on Forbes
Satan's Blog: December 2011
I know we can all regard our mobiles as devilishly frustrating at times (whoever dreamed up the idea of calling them smartphones?) but Bishop Claudio Silvero of the Catholic Church in Paraguay reckons
Three tablets a day: November 2011
It’s good to see how tablets are helping the elderly improve the quality of their lives. If you follow ATDI’s Twitter feed – go on, admit it; you know you do – you’ll see the mention we
Welcome to the ATDI blog: September 2011
Welcome to ATDI’s slightly sleeker website, including a revamped members’ section and this exciting new blog. One definition of blogging I saw was: inconsequential, unspellchecked drivel. This one
