Clockwork Orange is on steriods
It is so easy to feel enveloped in the comfort zone. I think of my narrow world - gentle home life amid educated people, theatre, looking forward to a good white wine at the end of the day, the pleasure of cooking wholesome and interesting food...It is a fortunate world.But it must not be blinkered.The world is changing. Demographics is changing. Even here in this pleasant city of a million, the status quo is shifting.Even if only from time-to-time, we really must turn our minds to the horror stories of other lives, of kids on crime sprees because they have squalid and unloving home lives - drunks, dropouts and addicts as their role models.More and more w

Calm alarm - one of the greatest inventions
"Not a morning person" doesn't begin to cover it.Or it didn't once. That was my mantra. All has changed. Technology has made me a morning person.I wake up softly these days, gently roused by sweet sounds.No longer am I shocked into consciousness by strident, jangling, aggressive, head-hammering clocks.Nope, it's my handy mobile phone.My darling iPhone. Before that it was my Nokia. The pretty wake-up calls available on the mobile phone are one of the significant inventions of our time.For all the great technological advances of our time, the way in which mobile phones have transformed wake-up calls would seem to ha