On Writing As It Happens
I’m pretty close to a round number. To date I have written 298,500 words for this blog, not counting posts that I have discarded or deleted. …
On The Humble Cheese Grater
You can’t beat a good cheese grater. Cheese just tastes better in a sandwich once it has been grated. It’s been proven by ACTUAL …
On Jackson X
I set myself the task of writing about a fictional character for this blog post, so this post is about Jackson X. His surname isn’t really …
On Voting
We hear a lot about our rights but these are given to us in return for fulfilling our responsibilities. One of these is engagement in the …
Album Digest, January 2015
Album Digest January 2015 rounds up a few albums from the tail end of 2014 that I didn’t get much time to write about. The only one of …
Understated Classics #28: The Meadowlands by The Wrens
One of the first lines of “The House That Guilt Built”, the soft cricket-laden lament that opens The Meadowlands by The Wrens, …
Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn
Feersum Endjinn is one of Iain Banks’ few non-Culture sci-fi novels. Like the Culture novels, an existential crisis drives the plot: …
Happy New Year 2015!
Just a brief message to wish everyone a happy new year. Getting my flat connected to the internet continues to be a trial so it’s …
On convictions, whereas to the strength of and belief in same
Overlong reflection upon the past is one sure way to make yourself unhappy so I try to avoid it. Nevertheless it becomes unavoidable at this …
October and November 2014
I recently started a new job and moved in to a new flat. This means I’m too busy to write any long blog posts at the moment. Also …
Building Brains
This is a longer form post about artificial intelligence inspired by reading a little bit of “The Pale King” by David Foster …
Album Digest, September 2014
Album Digest September 2014 contains four amazing albums, including the long-awaited return from the Aphex Twin, and an album from Cymbals …