Update: If you’re on the course, do link up via my profile and say hi by clicking here 🙂 Wayne recently clued me in to the existence of Future Learn, a website providing free education courses on a variety of intriguing concepts. Upon discovering it I immediately joined up to Read more
I’m quite excited about this one. Set roughly in the same universe as Wikimoku, Millennium Surfing is an enormous leap into humanity’s future, courtesy of a jaded sort-of time traveler. It employs only slight dubious science to catapult the protagonist through the entire future history of mankind, which, as you Read more
The thing about changes is that they are often afoot. So here’s the plan. I am bringing all content from Potential Gamer over to this blog and will be shutting down/archiving/something Potential Gamer forthwith. Why? Because that site was originally set up as something of a gaming journalism portfolio, a Read more
I’m in the middle of writing a short story that rather prominently features time dilation as a central plot device. Turns out time dilation is a complex little blighter. That’s why it took somebody like Einstein to nail down the concept in the first place. Anyway, while researching I stumbled Read more
I’ve an idea in my head for a story that’s been rattling around for a while and which is resolutely refusing to coalesce into something tangible. Having now dabbled with long and short form prose, radio and movie scriptwriting and comic writing and illustration, I find myself tempted by them Read more
It’s about time I mentioned a couple of rather excellent software products I’ve stumbled across in recent months. First up there’s Inkscape, an open source vector graphics editor. Think GIMP, but for vector rather than raster graphics. I originally discovered it out of necessity while designing wedding invitations and table Read more
Time for a quick pre-work general update… The local launch of my father’s book, Scott’s Forgotten Surgeon, takes place as Halesworth Bookshop this evening at 5pm. I’ll be heading down to Suffolk for it and can’t wait. Really very proud of him for not only having completed the project but Read more
Rather surprisingly given my own intolerance to physical exertion, a couple of generations back my family has a genuine polar explorer, who even accompanied the (in?)famous Captain Scott on his first attempt to reach the South Pole. Dr Reginald Koettlitz was a true explorer from a heroic age when the Read more
A man called Alessio Rastani trended all over the internet in the last 48 hours due to a remarkable interview he gave on the BBC. You can read all about it here. What he talked about isn’t particularly startling – it’s what any slightly cynical or rational person will have Read more
A few months back I wrote this for the Writers & Artists short story competition. It didn’t get anywhere, which means I can now put it online for general perusal. It’s called The Reaper Meter and is an idea I’ve had floating around for ages, concerning a scientist attempting to Read more