Personal blogs

This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about …

I first wrote about a possible Flickr Foundation back in November 2007 in a notebook. Today we filed a Certificate of Incorporation to bring it into existence. Luckily I have a mate coming over for …

He hadn’t even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with Ending Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed him down. I tore the …

Sometimes it takes me years to find a solution to a problem. This little applet, last updated in 2015, lets me set hotkeys for rating songs in iTunes. Now, I can rate a song without …

The year is 2016. It was a Monday, starting my second week of my first trip to New York in August, and I was sitting on the subway. I think I was just looking at …

Who are you impersonating to celebrate Identity Theft Awareness Week?

Notes for season 1 episode 10 “Number crunch” 14:20 The bomb in the baby-carriage was wired to the radio. It seems like such a movie-plot assassination device, but apparently exploding prams were considered a real …

January is often a quiet month for me and I'm grateful to be able to be able to slow right down and take everything as calmly as possible as I make my plans for the …

Today, during my lunch walk at the office, I suddenly recalled something my father used to constantly remind me many years ago. As a kid, I had this habit of walking with my hands inside …

I’ve decided to keep doing the annual end of the year reflections, iterating further on the structure I used in 2021 and 2020. What follows is a mix of personal reflections on the year, as …

They really want to burn that place to the ground, hm?

As I said earlier today on both Twitter and Facebook, I've done just about everything I can to get this...

We’ve lost more tree branches today than the last ice storm. Hearing the creak and fall, or scraping the roof… Not good. Power has been out most of the day, but we’ve got plenty of …

I've never been a sea person and I much prefer to spend my time up in the mountains but I have to admit that walking on the beach in the winter is very enjoyable. Especially …

After leaving social media for over a year, I realized that one of the worst aspects of it is that it rewards you for being negative. Every complaint, gripe and grumble can be a piece …

Picking up the electronic music theme some more, Sean Booth from Autechre has done a couple of AMA sessions on Twitch recently which have covered some interesting stuff relating to our thing. If you don’t …

New Year’s Day wander into Leeds city centre via Burmantofts and Mabgate A note covering the past week, and also the working day I put in between Christmas and New Year. How did I make …

Trying this for films, books, telly, art, podcasts and whatever else I want to track outside of weeknotes Atlanta, seasons 3 & 4, Disney+ – Still mulling on this one. It’s strange to watch this …

We just launched polls on Tumblr, and it’s been pretty fun. Cool to bring together the Crowdsignal (née Polldaddy) technology into a new world.

It's been a while since I've written. Seems like the end of this year quickly fell away from me and now it's almost 2023. So what's been going on? (A microblog that turned into a …