You know what that new book says: you can tell what a man's like from the way he chops wood Nice pile! Mind if I look - no, you carry on splitting while I look at it. Bark side down? Hmm. Not a criticism, just if you don't have a proper shelter-see, your top layers are damp. If we were in Norway, I'd be right with you, with the snow, but in Sydenham - shall I get my moisture meter? Well, if you ..
Children often don't have the words to say what they're feeling, and they don't always understand what we're looking for when we ask them questions. So if you ask, "How was your day?" and you're met with a grunt or a shrug, it's not because your child is trying to hide something from you. It's because they don't see why you could possibly want to know, or which part of their day you're intereste..
The conversation with a stranger, by Rhik Samadder I often return, in may head, to a railway platform in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. I was 10 years old and had just killed my 50th fly. We were in India looking for any school that would have me, so my parents could repatriate to the country they had left 25 years before. I don't know why. Born and raised in south London, the idea of leaving everything..
The conversation I wish I didn't have to have, by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett "Do you have any brothers or sisters?" the newly introduced stranger asks. It is an entirely predictable, well-meaning question that I do not dread, exactly, but one that requires the summoning of a certain amount of energy, usually held in reserve. "I have two brothers," I say. "The eldest is 22." I know from experience wh..
'He was holding my hand. He kept telling me I was lovely. It lit in my mind a tiny, indelible wisp of sanity' The conversation that saved me, by Tanya Gold I had developed a habit of throwing myself down escalators, or walking on the outside of balconies in high heels, and I took a lot of cocaine. I told myself I had split into two, because it is easier to cope that way; if there are two of you,..
This is, of course, a flawed question but one that illustrates a major paradox in the UK and international laws on drugs. Some drugs - such as alcohol, caffeine and nicotine - are legal, whereas others - such as cannabis, cocaine and opium - are not. This has not always been the case. In the 19th century extracts of these three now-illegal drugs were legal in the UK, and were sold in pharmacies ..
Family. Like an invisible beard of bees you wear when you enter every room, it buzzes and reshapes your appearance and occasionally stings. There is an episode early in Aziz Ansari's new Netflex series Master of None where, playing aspiring actor Dev, he tells his dad he is too busy to help him fix his iPad, and we follow his father's choleric stare to a flashback of his own childhood. Sitting o..
Since I started free software in the 80s, developers have grown to routinely mistreat users by shackling behaviour and snooping - but we have ways to resist In 1983, when I started the free software movemnet, malware was so rare that each case was shocking and scandalous. Now it's normal To be sure, I am not talking about viruses. Malware is the name for a program designed to mistreat its users...
Excutive order creates sanctions that could potentially penalize companies in China and Russia that benefit from hacks in attempt to curtail rising threat President Obama on Wednesday created the first-ever sanctions program to penalize overseas hackers who engage in cyber-spying and companies that knowingly benefit from the fruits of that espionage, potentially including state-owned corporation..
Verto and Kimble, the administrators of Evolution Marketplace, have made off with the cryptocurrency sum as Reddit community cries foul The administrators of a top deep-web marketplace have disappeared with over $12, worth of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, it emerged last night, in what appears to have been an "exit scam" On the website Reddit, a user called NSWGreat, who identified him-or herself ..
Britain's laws governing the intelligence agencies and mass surveillance require a total overhaul to make them more transparent, comprehendible and up to date, parliament's intelligence and security committee(ISC) has said in a landmark report prompted by the revelations of Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency(NSA) contractor The 18-month inquiry finds that existing laws are no..
Former VP of online marketing Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey, and a failed attempt to buy Spotify: 'They sure as hell were not selling to us...' In 2015, Sean Percival is a partner at Silicon Valley seed accelerator 500 Startups, but from 2009 to 2011, he was working at MySpace as its vice president of online marketing - just as the social network lost its crown to Fac..
Californan information security firm Proofpoint uncovers attack on Brazillizn internet users with generic router login details such as 'admin' Internet users are being warned to ensure that their routers have unique passwords, after email spammers have been spotted sending phishing links, which try to hijack the devices using default passwords, in order to harvest personal information from their..
US consumer rights group Epic claims Samsung has breached the privacy of its users, and is demanding an FCC investigation Samsung could be investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US following a complaint which claims its smart TVs record private conversations without informing users US consumer rights organisation the Electronic Privacy Information Center(Epic) accuses Samsu..
Game designer Sam Barlow has created a new kind of crime adventure, which relies on subtext and perception rather than quick joypad skills In a cramped police interrogation room a woman is being questioned about her missing husband. Is he dead? Has she killed him? There are seven separate interviews, chopped up into short, teasing fragments, but the answer aren't immediately obvious. It's up the..