This post is about dealing with difficult peer review, particularly reviewers who are rude and patronising. It’s made up of thre...

This morning I woke up and listened to the excellent BBC world service documentary ‘Dark Patterns’. It’s 27 minutes of your ti...

I write this post to document my own journey a little, and for the benefit of others who think they aren’t good enough, aren’t s...

It’s finally Xmas 2021. We got here. All the covid, PhD, work, projects, hassle and stress are done. Free Christmas cards are here too. Download each set, you get A5 and A6 pre-made pdf for printing if you’re inclined, plus all the images to just email or message to your fabulous friends. There ar...

This post is about managing projects and the documents that come with them, using ad-hoc person-centred solutions. It’s not abou...

"When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody" (Fran Lebowitz).

I recently saw this st...

Catching up on current happenings in smart urban creative and learning initiatives using digital interactions to engage with pla...

It is more than a year since I had to reinstall my operating system on my sturdy MacBook Pro (2015 8gb RAM 128gb SSD, OS X Yosem...

People are talking a lot on social media about their lives, more than ever. Indiscretions are made, but the light gets in when t...

I have forty days left. It is August 19th, 2020, and September has thirty days in it, so forty days. My ideal end day is Septemb...