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  • The Food Bin

    The Food Bin

    This is a green bag. A green bag of food waste. The green bag contains things like potato peelings and leftover scraps: the sort of…

  • Pen to Print Event

    Pen to Print Event

    Pen to Print: A Conversation with Tony Ballantyne and Eithne Cullen Thursday 18th November 2021 13:00-15:00 I’ll be reading from and talking about Midway, and leading…

  • Genesis

    Genesis

    On Friday night I saw Genesis for what will probably be the last time. It was was an excellent, though flawed, gig. Excellent because of…

  • Productivity Overview

    My second most popular post ever describes my Emacs Writing Setup. (My most popular post, if you’re interested, is this one.) I wrote five novels…

  • Productivity 2021

    My second most popular post ever describes my Emacs Writing Setup. (My most popular post, if you’re interested, is this one.) I wrote five novels…

  • You’re using folders and tags the wrong way round

    According to Ian Small, CEO of Evernote, only 5% of Evernote users use tags. Evernote is not the only application that uses tags and folders,…

  • Seduced by Productivity

    Seduced by Productivity

    I feel that I’ve been seduced by productivity.  It’s been a gradual process. It began when I discovered GTD. At the time I was swamped…

  • Tail Call Optimization

    Tail Call Optimization

    Tail Call Optimization appears in the March/April 2021 Issue of Analog The story continues the Fair Exchange series that has been appearing in Analog over…

  • Educational Research

    Educational Research

    Why not do your own educational research? It’s easier than you might think. Just follow the steps below. 1: Choose a hypothesis. This is the…

  • Running Obsidian on a VirtualBox Windows 98 Image

    Running Obsidian on a VirtualBox Windows 98 Image

    My mother unearthed  a load of old  CD ROMs in her attic over Christmas.  She was a big fan of adventure games, in particular MYST…

  • 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…