• Playdate Review: Daedalus Versus Minotaur

    Playdate Review: Daedalus Versus Minotaur

    It turns out labyrinths can also be a fun favourite for all the family!

  • September Round-up Notes

    September Round-up Notes

    Strong winds have blown in a sense of something new, an autumnal rebirth. But far from being chaotic, their blustered whirls have worked to organise the leaves more efficiently than any human.

  • Empty Tech Experiments: Randomised Check-ins

    Ever feel like The Scrolling never ends? Or, not even just The Scrolling, but the insistent race to keep up with the platforms that host that scroll? How, between one platform imploding and several more springing up to take its place, you can feel nothing but fragmented just trying to work out where to look?…

  • Recent Tech Tweaks and Fixes

    In the name of the continuing path of progress, I’m managing my “away-from-the-mainstream” tech usage with cheery abandon and aplomb. Here are some recent changes for your delectation.

  • Morning notes: Tea stir breathing

    Inventing morning routines. Tea stir breathing: When making your cup of tea , place the cup so that the tea’s surface is half in sun, half in shade. Stir the teabag, remove the spoon, and enjoy the teabag circling within the cup…

  • Goodbye old ‘phones

    I bought these Philips SHB9001 headphones in June 2011, back when Bluetooth earsets were more associated with people in suits taking loud phone calls. These were the only “budget” option (around the £85 mark), and I have semi-fond memories of walking to work with them on, while we were on-the-road with a baby, waiting for…