Blog

2024

Instalamb, my browser plugin to control Instagram 1 September
My mind sampling results 5 April
Announcing "Mindful Media Club" 7 March
A week making something each day 27 February

2023

2022

Art I enjoyed in 2022 - top eight 30 December
On intuition's relationship to rationality via language 30 December

2021

Blind-sided 16 May

2019

Pressure cooked split black urad dhal 20 October

2018

Brainstorming a better YouTube recommendation algorithm 7 October
A cycle home along the river 20 April

2017

On using a variety of information services 5 December
A thousand times an ant colony of fifty times a cat 24 November
A fugue on authoritarian high modernism 29 October
The peace to know what you don't know 11 October
Email review #1: FastMail 12 February
Textures and colours, India 11 February
A short walk around Vote Leave's software VICS 2 February
Hindu holy mountain #2: Arunachala 11 January
Rant on the failure of news media 1 January

2016

Notes on a meditation 21 December
Hindu holy mountain #1: Pavagadh 18 December
First, do no harm 18 December
In praise of temple elephants 16 December
Scouring pad 13 December
Houses like trees 22 November
Changing money 13 November
Communal pets 11 November
Zero marginal cost 24 October
Sea. Sunlight. Calm. Trees. Laughter. 11 October
On finding political axes using maths 22 July

2015

History of libraries 26 November
Don't play the game, mutate the board 19 November
Sync/Backup workshop at Redecentralize Conference 7 November
Making our information society safe and fair 30 August
Those brief moments when winning seems possible 7 August
"I find politics inaccessible": User testing voter advice apps 25 April
Why I'm collecting every MP candidate's CV 21 March
The advert wars 24 February
Which web development tools are commodities? 21 February
Promising to make software safer 28 January
Long, cold cyberwar 24 January

2014

I blinked and missed 6 exciting things in the last 20 years of space 4 November
An email to Nicholas 26 May
Properly funding Democracy Club 28 April
Irony of extensions that remove junk slowing Chrome down 4 March
Skills you need to get product/market fit, all in a line 12 February

2013

2012

Why did we love the giants coming to town? 10 November
Mapping the product/market space - an hallucination 25 July
Heroku's early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million 5 May
Products and markets are the same thing 4 April
Do epic shit! On being the first friend of DoESLiverpool 22 March
On the need for a new profession 17 March
Part 2: Why I think PledgeBank failed, when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew 5 February
Part 1: Why did PledgeBank fail when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew? 27 January

2011

Newsflash: Geeks now good at usability, everyone else crap 22 December
Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control 17 December
Why I just joined the Green party 14 December
What's a "startup" and why do I care? 30 November
Seven facts about the Global Village Construction Kit 20 September
We take extraordinary business models for granted 10 September
Seven facts about Unhosted 10 January

2010

Dinosaur media and the Internet both suck, a Booktrust story 27 December
Monsters not loony enough 29 March

2009

John Redwood is a climate change denier 11 December
Your wildest predictions for 2010 10 December

2008

Slightly dizzy after 2008 29 December
Save our economy from Climate Change 24 October

2007

2008 to be quite a ride 28 December
Sometimes there are victories 13 June
Life 5 March
Restricted shorts and newspaper hagiography 24 January
Short films and long journeys 9 January

2006

Quadruply offset 31 October
Sand and clay 8 October
In March the gypsies returned 7 July
Great firewall 7 July
Four more photos of old Shanghai 4 July
Holy mountain 27 June
Holy island 19 June
Buried in the sky 9 June
Tibetan language 6 June
Building a new highway 5 June
Tibet, horses, water prayers 5 June
Chengdu 5 June
Quick post 29 May
Hope in the air 29 May
Warriors or pigs? 23 May
Penguins in Shanghai 23 May
Shanghai, goodbye 20 May
Child of the atom bomb 15 May
Chinese family history 13 May
東南西北 (DongNanXiBei, EastSouthWestNorth) 30 April
Rush hour, six minutes from my window 27 April
Who is your birth Lord? 19 April
Four unusual hobbies 17 April
Think of a website 4 April
Save what? 20 March
Surrounded by miracles 19 March
Thrown out of Freedom of Expression seminar 13 March
Selling books and guns 11 March
Checking up on your goals 7 March

2005

Companies with unusual structures 15 December
Moving house 4 November
School without rules 18 October
Usability errors in Google 9 September
Working for your self 23 August
Don't be evil 27 May
Suriname with engineers 15 May
Vote based on a quiz 19 April
Yawn 7 April
How your MP voted on important issues 6 April
Say "Hello" 28 March
Found this week in Bristol election leaflet 3 March
Love letter to democracy 14 February
Fifty springs are little room 8 February
A High Indignity 5 February
Bindery and Conservation 29 January

2004

Google is Your Menu 29 December
How many people will you influence this afternoon? 3 December
Last Two Days at Burning Man 16 November
mySociety Job 8 November
Middle Two Days at Burning Man 25 October
Your and my society 22 October
First Two Days at Burning Man 16 October
Californian Cities 23 September
What is Burning Man? 12 September
Land of the Free 24 August
Moved House 13 August
Organic Bodies 5 August
Two Immodest Events 19 July
They Work for You 7 June
Tension Between Information and Action 26 May
Stopping Me Make Toast 14 May
Comment on the Prime Minister 27 February
Independent Story 3 January

2003

Public Whip Newsletter 3 December
Fun Flea Game 14 November
Sarajevo to London 10 September
Albania to Montenegro 31 August
Gjirokastra 31 August
Meteora 27 August
Big Fat Greek Wedding 27 August
Burning Punts 7 August
Current Projects 29 July
Japanese Charities 5 July
Back in Cambridge 27 May
Island Nation off the Edge of Eurasia 23 May
Future Technology 15 May
One Day Using Only Vending Machines 15 May
Hitchhiking to Christ's Grave 8 May
Concrete Electricity Pole 8 May
Inland Sea and Hiroshima 30 April
Favourite Garden and Tree 30 April
Japanese Gardens 26 April
Pictures of Japan 19 April
Nara, Buddhism, Suburbanity 15 April
Japanese Entertainments 10 April
Osaka, Japan 10 April
Japan and SARS 7 April
Outskirts of Kunming 5 April
Kunming Local Tourists 3 April
Chinese Language School 2 April
Various SARS links 2 April
汉字 (Chinese Characters) 1 April
Disinformation on SARS 1 April
Expat Protest and WHO 30 March
Kunming Life 29 March
Some Photos 29 March
This Blog is Censored 22 March
Unhappy New War's Day 20 March
Mandalay Monastry 19 March
Arrival in Kunming 10 March
Night with The Journalist 10 March
Goodbye Playboy, Hello Journalist 9 March
Welcome to China! 8 March
Vietnam Impressions 4 March
Expatriates, Prostitution and Gambling 3 March
Water Engineering 25 February
Quiet American Irony 21 February
Across the Demilitarised Zone 21 February
Tombs 14 February
Proposition in the Imperial Palace 14 February
Vietnam Coast by Train 10 February
Pho 2000 vs Burger King 6 February
Cacooned by Ho Chi Minh City 4 February
Cambodia Highlights 25 January
Wrath of Conrad 23 January
English, World Language 21 January
Friendly Cambodia 18 January
Bangkok Public Transport 13 January
Myanmar Impressions 9 January
Bus to Bangkok 8 January
January 6, 2003 6 January

2002

December 7, 2002 7 December
December 6, 2002 6 December
December 6, 2002 6 December
November 30, 2002 30 November
November 27, 2002 27 November
November 27, 2002 27 November
November 25, 2002 25 November
November 25, 2002 25 November
November 21, 2002 21 November
November 17, 2002 17 November
November 15, 2002 15 November
November 1, 2002 1 November
October 30, 2002 30 October
October 16, 2002 16 October
October 9, 2002 9 October
October 6, 2002 6 October
October 4, 2002 4 October
October 2, 2002 2 October
October 2, 2002 2 October
October 1, 2002 1 October
September 27, 2002 27 September
September 27, 2002 27 September
September 26, 2002 26 September
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September 24, 2002 24 September
September 23, 2002 23 September
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