because it’s still more fun than getting there in a straight line
Apple responds to RAMageddon by increasing prices
My weekly ritual for the last month or so has been to head over to the Apple website, configure my dream Macbook Pro, stare at the price for a few minutes before deciding not to pull the trigger. I recently went a step further and hit ‘buy’ only to discover that the delivery window was slap-bang in the middle of my vacation. Once again, I backed down and grumbled about the astonishing cost; a touch over £5,000. ...
National Writing Day 2026
While browsing Bluesky this evening, I discovered that today is National Writing Day in the UK. Given that I also happened to choose the same day to launch this blog, my own personal writing project, this feels like a very happy coincidence. This message from Princeton University Press was what alerted me to it: Celebrate National Writing Day in the UK with Helen Sword's Writing with Pleasure, an essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writing. 📝✍️ Enjoy 30% off with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #NationalWritingDay #Writing #Education ...
Hello, World
The Road Made by Walking Almost 20 years ago, I started a blog called WalkingRandomly following a pub conversation with Matt Haworth. Matt was leaving The University of Manchester, where we both worked at the time, and would go on to do great things as the co-founder of Reason Digital. I had a vague idea of wanting to write about maths, programming, science…whatever came up really. Matt took me seriously and a little later he emailed me with the log-in details of a WordPress instance on a server that he owned. ...