Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Agh! The fourth Oxford Geek Night is tomorrow: here’s a list of speakers. It looks like it’s going to be a darn good evening for everyone, and hopefully I can relax for long enough to enjoy it myself.
As usual we’ve managed to get a good mix of talks, with discussion of the society-changing work behind [...]
There’s currently no plan to switch off FM stations. In fact, many radio bosses have said oh, for heaven’s sake to the very idea. There is, astonishingly, less of a plan for radio switchover than there is desire among the general public for TV switchover. So that must be some sort of record for nothingness.
Seriously: [...]
I’ve created a small website for the driving instruction company who managed to get me to pass about eighteen months ago.
They’re great teachers and really highly qualified, as you can tell from the rash of logos on the homepage.
With the completion of the final story, to the point of general legibility, I can announce a provisional table of contents for my free-for-the-first-50 extravaganza of short stories:
Stones and Bones
Hidden depths
They glow, against the skin
Mortar dream
Stones and bones
O great computer!
Sense of place
A chat with relatives
The parable of the innkeeper
Want a free copy? Ask me [...]
Skip intro - or three types of copy the world will never miss
… Did you think I typed in your URL so I could watch a movie? Duh! I want information and I want it now. Only a fool actively erects barriers between a potential customer and his content…
I have a suggestion for a more [...]
At Torchbox we’ve recently been building a website for Welsey-Barrell, a bespoke furniture maker’s, whose workshop is located in Ducklington just south of our offices. This site is now live:
Wesley-Barrell: the country’s leading maker of classic, quality furniture, built without compromise to last for generations… Wesley-Barrell benefits from being a family business as it provides [...]
Last year I released a collection of short stories called A Pocketful of Lies. Anyone who wanted a paper copy could get one delivered for free, and in early 2007 I released the PDF online too.
This year I’m doing the same thing, with a themed collection of almost entirely new work: Stones and Bones. More [...]