Reading time: 2 mins It all started with The Crystal Maze on Channel 4. It was 1990, and we only had four TV channels to choose from and The Crystal Maze was a fun game show. In it, the host (Richard O’Brien) would take the contestants through different zones, and they’d have to partake in different categories of games;…
Reading time: 2 mins My son has never known a world without mobile phones, without screens lighting up, without his Mum and Dad using them on and off throughout the day. For me, notifications are still something I view as an interruption, an annoyance. Notifications are something that I tolerate to allow me to have a tiny computer on…
Reading time: 3 mins I will consider myself lucky if I see my son reach the age of 35. That’s 33 years away and by that point I’ll be 83. I will consider myself lucky if I see my son reach the age of 30. That’s 28 years away and by that point I’ll be 78. I say this…
Reading time: 5 mins Well, not right now, but sometime in the next few years at least. Maybe… probably… I dunno, I’ve given up trying to plan too much too far ahead so let’s call this future dreams that we hope will come true (note: a lot of this is, in reality, grounded in boring things like money but…
Reading time: 3 mins I’m getting a new MacBook Air soon (likely a 15″ model in Sky Blue) and I think I’m gonna go for a clean install. I use iCloud for Documents, almost entirely use default Mac Apps these days anyway, so I’m intrigued to see what I’d ‘bring with me’ in terms of apps. The list below…
Reading time: 4 mins Both my parents were musicians, my Dad played guitar and banjo (and one appeared in his folk band on the same bill as The Corries), my Mum played the piano, both sang in local and national choirs; vague recollections of my Uncle conducting them both in Paisley Cathedral for a performance of Handel’s Messiah, a…