The Tourist

The view of the planet

Changing rooms are the same all over the galaxy and this one really played to the stereotype. The lights flickered that little bit more than you’d want them to, a sizeable proportion of the lockers wouldn’t lock and the whole room needed a good clean. It didn’t fit with the eye-watering amount of money we… Continue reading The Tourist

Flatterer

From an interview with Gregory Wilson where he talks about his recent book Data Crunching. I was also inspired by David Cross’s excellent book “Data Munging with Perl“, which taught me most of what I know about how to actually use the language. If he’d written a cross-language version of that book, I probably wouldn’t… Continue reading Flatterer

On Writing

They say that if you want to be a writer then the important thing is to keep writing. And I’m certainly not going to disagree with them. But I’ve been a bad writer recently and other than the witterings on this site I haven’t written anything for some considerable time. My last published works were… Continue reading On Writing