Bryan Peterson

Rage Against The Machine is Christmas Number One this year. How I relish writing that phrase. For those of you who haven’t heard about the biggest upset in the history of the UK music charts, the political heavy rock rap legends have beaten Joe McElderry, the X Factor winning, plebeian Continue Reading

Who’d have thought a humble screensaver could save the planet, or discover intelligent life on other planets? That’s the objective of BOINC, an acronym of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, a project that aims to unite the power of home computers around the world for the common good. The Continue Reading

Published in Shetland Life, August 2009 This month’s column is about news that will happen, rather than what is or was happening. A pre-emptive strike, if you will. In October 2008, Lord Carter, minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, embarked on a major research project dubbed Digital Britain. The government Continue Reading

The British National Party. I hesitate before I go on as this particular manifestation of political ideology is not one that I, as a bleeding hearted liberal, subscribe to in any way (and the BNP seems an incongruous use of ‘party‘, a word with such exultant connotations). But the BNP Continue Reading

I’ve been following the curious story of a woman in Japan who has been arrested for ‘virtual murder’ after she killed a character, her cyber husband, in an online game (to clarify, no real persons were harmed in the writing of this column). The game, “Maple Story”, like many others, Continue Reading