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  • The Muppets Christmas Carol

    The Muppets Christmas Carol

    As anyone who has seen it will attest, the Muppet’s Christmas Carol is the definitive version of the story. Dickens’s version, whilst competent, fails in…

  • Guest Post: Stephen Palmer

    Guest Post: Stephen Palmer

    I suppose Brian Eno is best known for his contribution to music; and a lot of it is great music. I always think of him…

  • 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…