Neil Gaiman has started archiving a variety of introductions he’s written to various books, and today he posted one he came up with for M.J. Simpson’s biography of Douglas Adams.

I was met at the door to his Islington flat by a very tall man, with a big smile and a big, slightly crooked, nose, all gawky and coltish, as if, despite his size, he was still growing…. He was clumsy: he would back into things, or trip over them, or sit down on them very suddenly and break them.

Which, to me, is a cracking description of Corey Reid.

Who, I hope, appreciates that I’m comparing him to Douglas Adams, in a backhanded sort of way.

My “Trigger Happy” column in this week’s Georgia Straight is a look at the video game based on the television show Lost.

It includes an interview with Kevin Shortt, who wrote the game for Ubisoft, as well as a review of the game itself.

In a posting at the Digital Next blog of Advertising Age online, Craig Daitch writes about the difference between how his 4-year-old daughter and her grandmother interact with the Wii remote.

Through the eyes of my mom, I’ve handed her a remote control – one that looks very similar to the same remote she may have at her house that she uses to change the channels on her television. Her use of a TV remote is a learned, patterned behavior, unbreakable and obviously indistinguishable from a product of similar form factor.

The very same remote however is distinguished by my daughter instantly. In fact from her perspective there is very little the two share in common.

Interesting, relevant, important insight, says I.

Click on the photo to watch a video of Tim Robbins at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. Courtesy Advertising Age.

This week’s edition of “Techno Logic” in the Georgia Straight is a look at what went on at this year’s Massive Technology Show in Vancouver.

From 6S Marketing’s new Facebook strategies to Vancouver’s Free Geek chapter (“helping the needy get nerdy”), there was a bunch of stuff going on. Get the low-down over here.