Blog Posts

  • Milanote

    Milanote

    Milanote is a tool for organizing projects into kanban like boards. It’s targeted at creatives, and comes with a variety of templates, not only for…

  • Forks

    Forks

    Here is my pile of forks. The forks live on a shelf above my desk at work. Every time I get a take away meal…

  • The Undecidable Blues

    I wrote the following lyrics years ago, when I was doing my Maths degree. My friend, occasional collaborator and Dream London crimelord, John “Daddio” Clarke,…

  • Trespass

    Trespass

    Trespass appears in the September/October 2019 Issue of Analog

  • Goodbye Simplenote, Hello Again Evernote

    We’ve all got a list of our favourite CEOs. Okay, we haven’t. But if we did, mine would be Ian Small of Evernote.  You can…

  • Midway

    Midway

    Midway appears in the January 2019 issue of Lightspeed (issue 104)

  • The Pointless Rules of English

    I wasn’t really taught grammar at school.  Not in English lessons, anyway.    A friend who knows about such things explained that this was actually…

  • Recursion Crossword

    Recursion Crossword

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  • How I was fooled by Student Loans

    I must admit, the government had me completely fooled over student loans. Yes, I was annoyed that my children are still going to be saddled…

  • Six Lessons from Music…

    … to think about when you feel that your work as a writer is not receiving the recognition it deserves… Shostakovich wrote during the siege…

  • Trapezium

    Trapezium

    Trapezium: Analog September/October 2018

  • Influential People

    Follow the link if you wish to see TIME’s 100 most influential pioneers, leaders, titans, artists and icons of 2018 I heard a report on…