Insider Google story feels all too familiar July 27, 2011 I’M FEELING LUCKY: THE CONFESSIONS OF GOOGLE EMPLOYEE NUMBER 59 BY ZOE STRIMPEL Allan Lane, £20 hhhii DOUGLAS Edwards’ take on the Google story isn’t your average account of the rise and rise of the internet giant. We know this because he is at pains to tell us. I’m Feeling Lucky, he says, is an insider’s [...]
Holiday hell: no Blackberry July 27, 2011 SOLVING YOUR LOVE & LIFE PROBLEMS DEAR VEXED: My wife has banned me from using my Blackberry while we’re away for our August holiday. That’s three weeks. She claims my addiction to it is ruining our family; yet the idea of being unconnected for that long terrifies me. Help! Mark, 34, fund manager YOU are [...]
BEACH READS | WHERE QUALITY MEETS RELAXATION July 27, 2011 You by Sleep With Me author Joanna Briscoe is an addictive novel about a teenager, Celia, a student in the 1970s at a Bohemian school in Dartmoor. James Dahl is her attractive English teacher and tensions rise to breaking point as Celia’s mother finds herself drawn to Dahl’s intriguing wife. The Booker Prize longlist has [...]
Small cameras for snap-happy holiday makers July 27, 2011 LEICA V-LUX 30 German brand Leica is known for its high-spec, ever-so-groovy cameras, and the new V-Lux 30 is a case in point. Sleek and compact, it’s got an impressive 16x zoom, touch-screen controls, GPS tagging can create 3D photos and records video in HD. £550 www.leica-camera.co.uk NIKON COOLPIX P7000 Launched last autumn, Nikon’s smart [...]
Lady-friendly gadgets? A bit patronising, but on the rise July 27, 2011 TECH TALK MANUFACTURERS are feminizing their hardware more these days. There are endless variations being launched which are aimed at women. Kodak’s Easyshare Mini is a credit card sized camera with three-step sharing feature for uploading your photos on to Facebook or Google+. You can tag them using the Face Recognition feature. On the video [...]
The ultimate summer drive July 26, 2011 Big, brash and brutal: BMW’s 6 Series convertible has always been a fabulous grand tourer for executive wind-in-the-hair motoring. But this third generation 6 is longer, lower and wider than ever. It’s also bigger inside and more luxurious too. But the real treat is that, unlike its predecessor, it’s elegant as well. In fact, this [...]
Fresh, organic and utterly perfect July 25, 2011 Roganic 19 Blandford Street, W1U 3DH Tel: 0207 4860380 www.roganic.co.uk FOOD ***** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £55 or £80 WHERE to start with Roganic? It could be with the bad pun of a name, or the temporary nature of the place, or the exalted Lake District restaurant which begat this [...]
Lazy man yoga is great for you – without the sweat July 25, 2011 IN the event, lazy man yoga doesn’t have an awful lot to do with yoga. It turns out to be more like a post-workout stretch session. There are no floor-mats, no mantras and no dogs, downward-facing or otherwise. There’s a lot of stretching, but it’s more or less done for you by your therapist who [...]
Zoe Strimpel has a Su-Man facial and her skin is still thanking her July 25, 2011 CROUCH End is not the most convenient of London locations. But when your motivation for going there is a facial with Su-Man, the vagaries of north London transport fade into irrelevance. Originally from Taiwan, Su-Man Hsu (pictured) was a professional dancer before retiring and focusing on massage. Her house is a haven of impeccable feng [...]
Episode 20: Dad and I do the school pick-up July 25, 2011 MY parents have stayed on for an extra couple of days, ostensibly to help with Noel although he’s at school all day but actually, to allow the dust to settle after my run in with my father. I get out of the chauffeur-driven car and walk towards my parents. My father wears an ancient trenchcoat [...]