Basecamp’s new policies are garbage. The fact that they willingly claim their changes came ‘from David and I [Jason]’ shows. I’m struggling to find a reason to pay for my renewal here.

Our poll cards for the May elections came in the post last week. Because we live in Newham, in addition to the mayoral elections, we have a referendum on how the council should be run. The current Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, campaigned on allowing this referendum to take place—after ousting Sir Robin Wales, who had run Newham Council into th...

Sometime between 2012 and 2013, I wrote a short story called Random Access. This was a Black Mirror-a-like drama in which a person attached to an EEG could ‘re-live’ their memories, rendered in a video game. The other day, I removed the story from public view on my web site. It won’t be coming back in its current form. This is why. The...

I had a breakdown on my bike today. I was out recording cycle routes for people going to the Nightingale Hospital for their COVID shot (this one a route from Barking) and got a puncture for my trouble. As I stopped and seethed on the waterfront of Royal Albert Dock, prying the nail from my front tyre, I realised that, while this was pr...

WordPress: feels like operating a laser printer. I mean, it works, but you can easily spend an hour fighting with it or spilling toner over yourself. Keep coming back to it out of familiarity even though it feels like a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Tumblr: fun to dip into once in a while, but mostly the home of unhealthily obsessed med...