Philip John

  • Intel: Choose Us, We’ll Screw with Your Computer

    If you’re going to advertise your product, don’t attack the biggest thing that your target market is likely to care about! Someone at Intel obviously doesn’t think so with this ad…

  • Finger Skating to Finger Drumming

    My lovely surprise present from my girlfriend. Maybe she wants me to stop hammering the steering wheel when I’m driving! The demo puts me to shame, for a start, having no idea how to play real drums let alone a finger drum kit! It’s great fun though! I can just hit that little “D” button…

  • One Vote Every Four Years is All We Get

    A while ago I signed a petition on the Prime Ministers website asking for the government to introduce legislation that would empower ordinary citizens to call a referendum on important matters. According to the petition details a system, called Citizens’ Initiatives, exists in Switzerland, New Zealand, Hungary and 24 states in America. The petition asks…

  • Tagging Alzheimer’s Sufferers

    Having a Dad with Pick’s disease my eye was caught this morning by a headline from the BBC, charity supports dementia tagging, which reports the news that the Alzheimer’s society has given its approval to the use of electronic tagging of dementia sufferers. I knew why instantly without reading the article – my Dad used…