I DON’T think the screen is sup­posed to look like that. It cer­tainly didn’t look so pixel­lated last week­end, but then again last week­end it hadn’t been dropped in a sink full of plates and dirty, soapy water and then spent a week in a bag of oat­meal. In case you need instruc­tions on how to drop your iPod Touch in a full sink, here’s what I found to be the best way:

1. Make sure volume is right up, you’re wear­ing over-the-ear head­phones and a song you really, really like is play­ing.

2. Go into the kit­chen to get a cof­fee.

3. Put […]

FAREWELL to the old can­vas satchel that’s served me so well for the past eight years and hello to the new bag in my life - an Aper­ture Sci­ence mes­sen­ger bag in glor­i­ous orange. It’s based on my favour­ite video­game, Portal, and looks great. I wanted to get it a few months back but the price put me off, then Ev got it for me as a birth­day pressie. Lovely.

It’s a lot big­ger than I thought it would be but all that means is that there’s loads of space inside. The front holds pens, an iPod or phone and my note­book […]