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A few months ago I wrote about an idea for a novel that I’d abandoned. I mentioned in that post that I’d abandoned it because …
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First Light, Last Light
I often ponder whether the joys of waking up early are greater than those of staying up late. Empirical evidence seems to bear this out: all …
Time Is Time and That Is That
A brief rant about Facebook: I hate the fact that the news feed defaults to “Top Stories” even though I change it back to “Most Recent” …
Jim's Conservatory
Let’s assume that Jim has just had a sudden unexpected expenditure: a neighbour released a bull into his back garden and it destroyed …
Consider the Donut
A Little Bit Intimidating Really
There is so much good writing out there. All you have to do is fire up the guardian website, or download the medium app to your smartphone, …
How Fireworks Work
Last night an impromptu firework display occurred. I watched it from my bathroom window. Very pretty and somewhat extravagant, given that …
You Can’t Just Switch Off Free
Ministry of Sound boss Lohan Presencer does the cry baby act in today’s Guardian, complaining that Spotify’s freemium model …
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 …
Building Brains
This is a longer form post about artificial intelligence inspired by reading a little bit of “The Pale King” by David Foster …
What IS That Noise?
I recently spruced up a post I wrote four years ago about Biosphere’s wonderful album Substrata. I added the following footnote about the …