So tonight I gave a brief talk at the inaugural Brighton Raspberry Jam organised by @BrightonPi and hosted by the wonderful people of the Brighton Hackspace, @BuildBrighton. Due to time constraints, I didn’t have the time to prepare a slide deck for my talk, instead I just stood at the front, enthused about the Raspberry […]
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Ford’s Laws
My good friend Ken McGlothlen recently posted his “Ford’s Laws”, which had me in tears, so I had to repost them here. I’ll let Ken explain the origins: “For a while, I’ve been referring to Ford’s First Law, which you delivered to me the time you were kind enough to come out here and help set up […]
Book Review: The Sweet Scent of Blood and The Cold Kiss of Death
The Sweet Scent of Blood (Book 1) and The Cold Kiss of Death (Book 2) by Suzanne McLeod Published by Gollancz Suzanne McLeod has created an amazing universe full of great characters and endless possibilities. Start now and get ahead of the game for when the movie is announced and everyone else is clamouring to catch up. […]
Book reviews – short and sweet!
In my initial post I mentioned book reviews. Well I’m finally going to get around to this, but they are going to be a little different from the norm. No longwinded dissection of a book, no elaborate scoring system, just a paragraph or two saying why I liked the book and a link to Amazon […]
Welcome to my world
So once again I find myself starting a new blog. Given my past track record, I’m not sure how long this one will last before I carelessly abandon it, but I’m going to hopefully give it a fair crack of the whip. What am I going to blog about? Stuff that interests me or I feel […]