They fired frikin’ lasers at my frikin’ eyeball.

A person with gray hair is wearing glasses and an eyepatch while standing outdoors near a textured wall and trees.

2026-06-01


The new home office really beginning to come together. This was the back of the internal garage just over a week ago.

A small, newly plastered room with a wooden floor, radiator, and a white door.

2026-06-04


Happy AI use of the day. I had a WordPress export file that wasn’t properly importing into Ghost. I suspected some badly-formed XML somewhere in the 1000+ entries. I asked ChatGPT to have a quick look for me. It took a few minutes, but it found the error, corrected and created an export file that imports perfectly.

Result.

2026-06-04


Things change. Things end.

The trick is to take the best of what came before, and make something new from it.

And that’s what I’m thinking about now.

And yes, I am being intentionally vague about what I’m referring to. Thanks for noticing. :-)

2026-06-04


For the past 14 years, I’ve been exploring how tech will shape our long term future for a client. Now, I’m going to start doing it for myself.

So, here’s my first launch of several in the coming weeks: Coffee & Complexity — a newsletter about our lives in two years’ time, and 10 years’ time.

2026-06-05


We’re having a weird spring. Hot summer last week, stormy weather like this over the last few days, and back to sunny now.

Video 2026-06-05


Sad news: Anthony Head has passed away.

2026-06-05