Earlier this week, a somewhat touching comment was left on this site by a reader named Betablocker who said he has been following my work since SegaWeb (i.e. a long, long time ago) and is sad that I do not blog as much as I used to. So I wanted to take this timely opportunity to talk about why that is, and what I'm actually working on these days, and why it's so exciting. More »

I’m very proud to see the spotlight on LLUSTRE, a new ecommerce business that’s all about beautiful design and stuff for your home — the venture’s interesting to me for a few reasons, but chiefly because of its co-founders…
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This amazing 360-degree image was captured 310m above London at the top of the Shard skyscraper, on the night of the student protests in November 2010.
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Colleague just forwarded this around the office. Once in a while a link is interesting enough to repost…

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A lot of people are going to fail their quit smoking attempts today. I quit smoking for good just over four years ago. And not smoking fucking rules. But I had help…

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Ages ago I decided I’d had enough of bedtime compromise: The sofabed in my flat presented certain problems rather than space-saving convenience, so I sold it on eBay — and even made a little profit replacing it with a proper bed. What was interesting was the random story of the mystery eBay purchaser… More »