Article also published on Friday 19th June 2009 in The Guardian
A little under a year ago in this very newspaper I reviewed the Apple iPhone 3G and its new firmware release: ‘Now that the Applications store is up and running,” I wrote, “you will soon find it a very common sight indeed to see people crowded around each other’s iPhones showing off the latest impossible, breathtaking and ground-breaking application. ‘Ah, but mine can do this!’ will be heard in every café and bar. Satirical sketches will be written and performed on Channel 4 mocking the trend. Once again Apple has changed the rules and nothing will be ever be quite the same again.”
It is very rare for... READ ALL
Hello there.
You have either asked me to retweet a post or to draw the attention of my followers to a particular site. It is quite probable that you want to alert as many people as possible to a worthy cause, an extraordinary person or perhaps a landmark day or event that should be celebrated and recognised by as many people as can be reached. It is just as probable that I heartily approve of your cause and its aims. And yet I am sending you here to this page on my website instead of complying with your simple and reasonable request. What on earth am I playing at? How can I be so uncharitable, so unfeeling? With a quarter of a million followers isn’t it my duty to... READ ALL
After the death of Stephen's tutor, mentor and friend, Dr Donald Trefusis, we discover that he has bequeathed to Fry something quite unexpected: a computer memory device called a dongle. And on that dongle is stored… well, listen and you shall learn…
Trailer: Oscar Wilde's Short Stories
Uploaded November 28th, 2008 @ 11:11 hrs UTS
WELCOME,
visitor, to the official Stephen Fry website. It has been
some time in the making, but at last Version 2.0 is here.
Some regulars will, inevitably, take a little time to
get used to this new frysphere, and will…