• Storytelling

    I was struck by two things I encountered online this week: a video about a bell foundry and an interview with a fashion designer. I suppose both subjects lend themselves to my interests in some vague way, but not very closely.

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  • Nostalgia for a Possible Future

    Personal computing in the ’90s and early ’00s moved at a rapid pace. At least, that’s how I remember it. School curricula, not so much. Around 2003, I was being taught about the merits of dot-matrix printers, how to choose between a command line interface and graphical user interface, and the intricacies of network topologies.…

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  • Making My Site More Social

    As a bit of an experiment in decentralised social media, I’ve made some updates to my site so that I can use it for federated posts to Mastodon and Pixelfed. The idea is to find a way to ‘own’ my own data, especially photos. I’m broadly happy with how it is working, but a glitch…

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  • Very Specific Issue with Adobe Digital Editions

    How I fixed Adobe Digital Editions crashes when trying to get borrowed eBooks onto a Kobo eReader. I would post this on the help forums for Adobe Digital Editions, but I can’t find the needle in the haystack of different types of crash that the application presents, so in the spirit of being community minded,…

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A passion for communicating

My work is centred on making “expert” topics understandable, helping to connect people and ideas. 


Making the complicated simple

I find ways to make complicated topics simple through clear communication.

Building foundations

I build the foundations for strong public and non-profit sector communication.

Open systems

I care about open systems that contribute to society, whether that be software, art, or the places we live.

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  • We’ve had a surprising flurry of snow here today, lending a tangible note to this beautiful post. I think I’d half noticed the newly lingering daylight at the end of the work days last week and the little signals—the geese arriving in the garden behind my office, the start of the hay fever season—of our

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  • Zurich a quite pretty at night!

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