Blog Posts

  • Install Mediatomb on Ubuntu 15.04

    Now that Ubuntu 15.04 has moved to systemd, Mediatomb no longer runs from the dash. If you want to run it on a per user…

  • Ubuntu 15.04 + Chillblast Fusion Quasar

    I’ve installed Ubuntu 15.04 on my new PC with little difficulty. The machine came with 64bit Windows 8.1 pre-installed, I partitioned the SSD and HDD…

  • The Only Good Thing about Vinyl was the Covers

    I must have bought about 200 vinyl records before I bought a CD player. You can see some of them above, there’s a prize for…

  • Codes that Changed the World: Fortran

    Before Fortran there was no poetry in programming The BBC are doing a a very interesting radio series on programming languages called Codes that Changed…

  • Story Behind the Book Volume 4

    Story Behind the Book Volume 4

    Volume 4 of the “Story Behind the Book” series of charity anthologies, edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner is out now.  It features a…

  • How to be a Great Writer

    I was having a conversation about Detective Fiction with a friend of mine recently. He brought up the fact, apparently well known in detective fiction…

  • How to be a Great Writer

    I was having a conversation about Detective Fiction with a friend of mine recently. He brought up the fact, apparently well known in detective fiction…

  • How Writers Write: Neil Williamson

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • 5 Common Linux Misconceptions

    1. The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy is a logical, sensible structure It’s not. It’s something that has been cobbled together in an attempt to unify diverging…

  • How Writers Write: Keith Brooke

    How Writers Write: Keith Brooke

    Following the interested generated by my posts on How To Write, I thought it might be interesting to see how other writers produce their work.…

  • How Long does it Take to Write a Novel?

    The answer? Fifteen days, twenty hours and fifty five minutes. I know that because I finished Dream Paris yesterday and I’ve been clocking the time…

  • 10 Books I Couldn’t Put Down

    I don’t know what my favourite book is, but the following are books I read at various times of my life that, at the time,…