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What I do
As of November 25 2005, I'm the editor of the Technology supplement of The Guardian, which comes out every Thursday. It also has a blog, updated through the week.

From 1995 to December 2004 I was technology editor at The Independent writing about technology, science and the environment. Major stories covered in depth included the dot-com boom (when a study found me the most sceptical journalist in Fleet Street about dot-coms' prospects - hey, do you think I was right?), the BSE crisis, .... See more stories I've written for The Independent; many are in paid-for parts of the site, however.

After that I freelanced - writing a weekly column for The Independent, and for other outlets too, including The Register and Netimperative. Among the stories that I wrote at The Register were the iPod nano's tendency to show scratches (Friday September 23, prompting other media to pick the story up for the Monday), Dell's closure of its customer services forums because they were too critical (July 2005), the threat of avian flu (June 2005) and the possibilities of fusion (July 2005).
See my CV (resumé to Americans..) or contact me.

Blog
It's called "..on anything that comes along" because that's basically what it's about: anything. Technology plays a large part, but then so does my interst in scams, and media, and tennis, and so on.

Predictions
At the start of 2003, 2004 and 2005 I made some predictions in The Independent about what would happen in technology in those years. Dead on, or just dead wrong?