"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place."

"Welcome to Google Apps Script: an easy way to automate simple tasks across Google Products." "use standard JavaScript; use Google's online Web Script Editor or your favorite Desktop development tool; Execution and hosting of scripts on the Google cloud" Interesting. (Confusing naming, perhaps?)

The venerable Mac application suite finally seems to have been consigned to the history books. Shame really; I never used it very heavily but it was nice and lightweight, and easier to deal with than Office for the Mac.

"Less than 3% of Tube journeys are now made on single and return tickets, with Oyster accounting for more than 60% of all trips, said TfL." Well, that pricing 'worked' then.