Blog Posts

  • bliss

    I ripped my CD’s in the noughties.  Now they’re sat in the attic awaiting the collapse of civilisation. When the electricity stops working I can…

  • 12 Mince Pies

    I’m not a superstitious person.  I walk under ladders and on the cracks in pavements.  I don’t knock on wood, I don’t throw salt over…

  • The Silent Woods

    Chris Beckett and I have worked together on short stories in the past. This is our first successful collaboration. The Silent Woods appears in Shoreline…

  • ibuffer changed my life

    ibuffer changed my life

    I wanted a quick way to delete all the buffers that can accumulate in an Emacs session. A quick search threw up this post by…

  • Midway

    Midway

    Written on the road between the past and the future, a writer explores his relationship with his dying father. Literature, fantasy and science fiction come…

  • My New Writing Regime

    My New Writing Regime

    I have a new writing regime. For years I used to head in Manchester city centre to write in coffee shops and the Portico Library.…

  • Lightweight .emacs

    Lightweight .emacs

    The last couple of years have seen a change in my Emacs setup. Work dictates that I have to use a number of different machines;…

  • tonyballantyne/tech

    Looking for my tech site? This has moved to tech.tonyballantyne.com

  • Excerpts from Another Life

    Excerpts from Another Life

    Read one of the stories from Midway here

  • 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,…