Kuala Lampur, Dec. 24 -- It's Christmas Eve as you're reading this and I've decided to try something new.

A bit of a throwback, but instead of writing this at my computer, I decided to see if I could dictate it.

Thanks to the wonders of technology and iOS18 (though now it's iOS26), Voice Memos now comes with transcription.

That means I can just record myself talking, my words automatically converted to text, and then just copy over the transcribed text to Word document.

It's tools like these that make things easier for the disabled.

Last week, when I was at a media lunch, as I was cutting up a turkey leg, I lost feeling in one of my hands.

Both my hands were, without warning, suddenly weak, and I could barely hold onto my cutlery. ...