Creativity, curiosity, and code
It’s voting day in the local elections tomorrow. And this comes with apologies to my mum, who retweeted this poll and made it appear in my Facebook and subsequently got a passionate rant from her son. She’s awesome and I totally ❤️ her! But it’s a good excuse to get people thinking about this… I’m a […]
My college computing teacher, Ray Burcham, is raising money for the Great Western Hospital radiotherapy unit. This will mean that cancer patients don’t have to travel 30 miles to Oxford for daily cancer treatment. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/raymond-burcham This man is the reason I’m writing code today. So if you’ve ever had some advice, good-value work, IT support, […]
I asked people on Facebook to use comments to ask me questions about my year - I'm writing up and continuing here!
Social Media can make the build up to Christmas look so lovely. But if you’re struggling, know that you’re not alone.
How do you get from "Who's under R2D2?" to voice dubbing in iMovie? And why does nothing ever get done in our house?!
In today's sad-things-I-read-on-Sunday we'd like to bring you the sad tale of a robin who had to abandon her nest.
Creativity is more important than ever. What will you do today? In a world that seems to have gone mad recently, creativity has become more important than ever. Not just “arts”, but making, doing, sharing, writing, hacking, teaching, growing, mending and so many other things are creative endeavours. But it’s sometimes hard to recognise your […]
You probably thought I was a bit funny. I mean, you were the adult man on the pink, three-wheeled Barbie scooter, but *you* probably wondered what *I* was doing. I was in my car. I saw you from afar and had resolved to cheer you on. At first I wasn’t sure if you were a […]
2016 was a year of transition. 2017? Well, it's started out with acceptance of things that must be.
Yes, it’s the third of January and I’m writing a blog post so you’d be quite entitled to think that I’ve started some new year’s resolution to write more and am already three two days behind. And, well, that’s not strictly true, but it is partly true. What I have been doing is putting together […]