This is a blog really, but I'm just posting it on the front page because there's been no news for a while...

Sometimes, technology can overrun. Certain points are reached at which, essentially, the technology is perfect – it does exactly what us unchanging, un-evolving, ham-fisted bipeds need it to do to the most perfect degree, at which point anyone sensible would simply say "there, that's done" and just sit back and enjoy it. A spade is still a spade, no matter how many different shapes and materials you make it in.

Of course industry, in its wisdom, is never ready to pack up and go home – it has to keep working – so it pushes ever forward, tweaking this, "improving" that, until that moment of perfection is long since forgotten and we all merrily march into the shops and buy new products that are just that little bit worse than before. That's the "progress" that old people like to mutter to each other about, and the older I get, the more I see their point. I suppose that’s the way it goes.