iTWire - iTWire welcomes master tech wordsmith Charles Wright aboard

iTWire welcomes master tech wordsmith Charles Wright aboard

by Stan Beer
Wednesday, 05 December 2007
! It gives us great pleasure to welcome one of the truly great technology wordsmiths Charles Wright into the fold of iTWire bloggers. Known for his outstanding passion and insight in the consumer electronics and computing areas but above all his masterful writing skills, Charles is a wonderful addition to the iTWire team. Most popular skills tags .NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML In his own words, Charles Wright has been working with computers since they were big enough to require their own room (plus power and cooling plant), while constantly yearning for something smaller, faster, better-designed and cheaper. A former police roundsman, aviation roundsman, political roundsman, TV critic, wine writer and humorous columnist, Charles was computer editor of the Melbourne (Australia) broadsheet The Age, assistant editor of the national financial daily the Australian Financial Review, and before that, news editor and chief sub-editor of the national daily The Australian, and Melbourne bureau chief of News Ltd publications. Charles is also a former president and life member of the world's largest computer user group, Melb PC. He has been the owner of a succession of mobile (and not-so-mobile) devices ranging from the Toshiba T6300 to the first Apple Mac "Portable", the Hewlett Packard LX and OmniPage, and four generations of the Newton, the last of which he still regards with great fondness. He is widely known for his work as a consumer advocate (for several years he appeared as a weekly commentator on ABC Melbourne Radio 774's Jon Faine Show) and public speaker in the area of IT. Charles' new blog, ShrinkAge , once again in Charles' words, is devoted not to psychiatry and psychoanalysis but to the technologies that enhance personal and global mobility, and the strategies and opportunities they foster. As Charles says: "It will explore the ultra-mobile notebook, the UMPC, SmartPhones and PDAs, the digital tablet, the iPhone and GooglePhone, software like the brilliant Microsoft OneNote, and - because this is a well-rounded blog - mobile music and video and platforms like the iPod. It's about the shrinkage of budgets and the defeat of the tyranny of time, so it embraces VoIP, and the genius of Dave Allen's Getting Things Done. ShrinkAge takes a particular interest in the application of all the above to small business. And because I've actually applied the ShrinkAge principle to my daily life, you can expect the occasional mention of the motor scooter - my Aprilia Scarabeo is possibly the most brilliant example of intelligent ShrinkAge - and the Sunbeam Cafe Series espresso machine, which shrinks a lot of the time we used to waste getting a take-away latte. We shrunk that too, of course. Our caffeine hit of choice: the Piccolo latte." We look forward to many more of Charles' entertaining observations about his world of miniature technologies and lifestyles and trust that you will enjoy them as much as we do. Tags See All Tags Charles Wright Mobility People Stan Beer iTWire Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now