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Stephen Fry’s blog is one of the brighter nodes on the Web. The knowledge and insight accrued over many years as a geek, gadget lover and general technology enthusiast ooze from every pore of his wonderfully written and deeply thoughtful posts.

Some of his writing clearly targets the intelligent, technology-interested, non-specialist (particularly those posts which are co-published on the Guardian), but his many years as a passionate consumer of technology and his mastery of the craft of written English combine to ensure that there really is something here for everyone — although fans of Microsoft software may get a bit hot-under-the-collar reading his less than flattering opinions of that company and its products.

His easy writing style belies a sharp eye for detail and accuracy. He recently wrote of the Asus EEE:

“The Asus EEE PC perched on my knee combines GNU software with a Linux kernel”

An innocuous enough sentence. However, I’ve now read dozens of reviews of the EEE written by professional and semi-professional technology journalists and I think this is the first piece in which the distinction has been made between the GNU operating system and its kernel, Linux. You may not care much about the distinction, but evidently, Stephen does. This type of attention to detail typifies his accessible and insight-packed writing style.

Definitely one for the feed reader’s subscription list!