I don’t have what you would call a healthy relationship with my work. I am self aware enough to realise this but not really mentally equipped to do anything about it. I lurch from frustration to disengagement to obsession to anxiety and back again on a pretty regular basis. Currently I am hovering somewhere between…

All photos courtesy of David Pearson https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidpea/sets/72157646722886933 So this week with considerable assistance from the main organisers in London and the very generous sponsorship of the Just Eat technical team in Bristol I helped put on a 300 Seconds event in Bristol. For those that don’t know 300 Seconds is; “..a series of talks by…

I’ve been accused of reverse snobbery more than once in my life. I wonder if this a particularly British thing as I don’t know of many other places quite so obsessed with the ‘class system’. I had a pretty pathological distrust of anyone who attended public school and attendees of what I now know to…

As Adrian Mole might have said I am 41 and a half. This is, according to authoritative sources (well Wikipedia), about the time when a ‘mid life crisis’ might occur. I’m not sure if that is what I experiencing but I am certainly going through an introspective phase that had previously been pretty absent from…

Preaching the ‘Public Service Internet’ One of the favourite things I have read for a while is this piece by Adrian Hon about the idea of a ‘public service internet’. Go and read it now — it is well worth it and better than anything I am going to write here ☺ If you didn’t follow the…