On 14 Feb 2018, my moth­er passed away. Fol­low­ing are excerpts from the Eulo­gy I deliv­ered at her funer­al. Every­one knows that Mum, or Mam as some of us called […]

Some­times I think I have fig­ured it all out. On more than one occa­sion in my life, I have start­ed think­ing about the uni­verse and end­ed up inad­ver­tent­ly stretch­ing my brain […]

OK, so this is at the top of the list of “first world prob­lems”, and for that, I apol­o­gise. But my Apple Watch is the most frus­trat­ing, annoy­ing and almost […]

“I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me.” Abe Simp­son This is […]

From the age of around 10, I fell in love with com­put­ers. More specif­i­cal­ly, I fell in love with the TRS-80. Which may give some indi­ca­tion of my age, and […]

Thanks to the pow­er of Google, I recent­ly stum­bled across a small ref­er­ence to my father in the New­cas­tle Her­ald from 1950. My father passed away when I was eight years […]

“Have you ever stood and stared at it, mar­velled at its beau­ty, its genius? Bil­lions of peo­ple just liv­ing out their lives, obliv­i­ous.” Agent Smith, Cir­ca 1999 I like to stare […]

“My mind is aglow with whirling, tran­sient nodes of thought careen­ing through a cos­mic vapour of inven­tion.” Hed­ley Lamarr

Brush­es with fame? Not many. But all notable nonethe­less. I once was invit­ed to a par­ty at Par­lia­ment House by Natasha Stott Despo­ja. And I went. I lit­er­al­ly bumped into Mal­colm […]