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  • The Treachery of Code

    2013-12-11

    I think we should teach people to write code that's meaningful and understandable. It's my opinion that neither JavaScript nor CodeAcademy's new app are good tools for doing that.

  • PressGram

    2013-12-09

    Thoughts on the new Instagram-like PressGram social network and photo app.

  • I don’t want that news to one day be about me

    2013-10-22

    Gosh I’m angry. I may regret writing. This morning, shortly after waking, I heard some news. It wasn’t about anyone close to me. It involved a family, of which I’ve met the mother once. The father had died; suddenly and way before his time. I desperately don’t want to make some kind of political point […]

  • Snail

    2013-10-17

    Snail!

  • Middle…everything?

    2013-09-21

    I feel like I'm in a stereotypical, middle-class, middle-England, middle-aged parody of my own life.

  • Bike! Hat! Wow!

    2013-07-14

    I’ve always been a keen cyclist in one way or another, and even more so since we moved to Swindon. So it’s quite amazing that its taken so long to get us using bikes as a family to get around. There’s been several reasons for this. For one, my ‘workhorse’ bike has had a wobbly […]

  • Going Digital: Books

    2013-07-01

    This is part of a mini-series of posts about 'Going Digital'. If you missed it you might want to read the introduction. Books and Me In theory, I love books. I'd love to be the kind of person that finishes a decent book once a week. In reality I'm great at starting reading books, and […]

  • Going Digital: Music

    2013-06-30

    This is part of a mini-series of posts about 'Going Digital'. If you missed it you might want to read the introduction. My History of Digital Music Here's a little potted history of digital music in my life. Let me let you in to a little secret: I thought Mini-Discs were great! But the rest […]