The Architecture PLB director on vintage Macs, his favourite tweeters and the perils of distraction

Rupert Cook

What is your favourite website?

There are so many I like. My gut feeling was that I鈥檇 choose something graphic and pretty but - by looking back through recent sites I鈥檝e bookmarked and have enjoyed - I鈥檓 going to say . What a resource!

is probably my most visited though.

What is your worst digital habit?

Distraction 鈥� has a good diagram. I now turn everything else off when I need to get things done.

iPhone/Blackberry/Android. Which side are you on?

iPhone.

Are you into social networking? (linkedin, twitter, facebook etc)

Yes, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Who do you follow on Twitter?

Ecology 鈥� Dusty Gedge 鈥赌赌�
Financial crisis
New social order, feminism and general top tweeter
Planning/ NPPF/Localism &
Writer, Editor NLQ, Tweets from NLA conferences

And 鈥� always good value on Twitter, takes a nice photo too!

What is your favourite app?

BloonsTD4HD wins 鈥渕ost time wasted on it鈥� prize. I also think artCircles is a nice idea, but has too little content. I tend to have a quite stripped down set-up so not many apps are loaded.

Good pub guide is very useful. The most recent download has been Decibel Meter.

What is your preferred means of communication? (eg. Email, phone, face to face, text etc)

Offline. It used to be called face to face.

What did you last buy online?

From Amazon, all in the same purchase: Capital by John Lanchester, RHS Nature鈥檚 Gardener: How to Garden in a Changing Climate in Association with the Royal Horticultural Society by Matthew Wilson and What are Universities For? Stefan Collini.

PC or Mac?

Macs all the way! My favourites over the years have been: the original Macintosh; I have the later fake Mac Classic 鈥� still great though, currently used as a bookend; Wallstreet Laptop 鈥� black subtle two finishes on the plastic; and the Ti 鈥� great but dated quickly.

My new 15鈥� MacBook with flash drive and retina display is awaiting shipping. The iPad is awesome.

Guilty pleasures: Most played tunes from iTunes/Spotify?

The Age Of The Understatement 鈥� The Last Shadow Puppets. I鈥檝e played it 28 times, which doesn鈥檛 sound like a lot but having re-built the iTunes library about 3 years ago, I lost play times and ratings. That was a sad time. It鈥檚 never been quite the same since.

Rupert Cook is a director at Architecture PLB

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