Blog Posts

  • 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…

  • 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…