19 JANUARY 2008, page 55

A New Occasional Column On Technology And The Web

M ost writers of science fiction have foreseen human communication becoming more sophisticated and realistic. Brave New World has the feelies; 1984 has telescreens; every......

Dear Mary

Q. Now that eco-issues are so fashionable my husband has come out as a militant meanie on energy conservation. Meanwhile our three teenage daughters use absurd amounts of hot......

Q. I Am Helping To Organise My Brother’s 18th Birthday

party. Too late we find out that our grandmother has given him the ‘treat’ of booking an old-timer’s band which can only play waltzes, etc. None of us wants to hurt Granny’s......

Q. I Have A Problem Which Has Caused Great Annoyance

and occasionally embarrassment to me for as long as I have known how to write. The problem is, I never seem to have the same handwriting twice. I don’t mean just a small......