This blog was mainly intended to contain long-form reviews, which I haven’t been writing recently. However I’ve decided to write with greater frequency at Clerestory, and I’ve also started an occasional newsletter which I’d encourage you to sign up to if you’re interested in what I’m writing or thinking about. Alternatively you can see what […]

This is just to say that this blog has not yet died. I’ll be posting at least a few times a month in the new year. I’ll be writing about film, books, and literature, and maybe I’ll start writing a bit about technology.

Lately I’ve gotten very addicted (in a good way) to Beeminder. It’s a site that allows you to set quantifiable goals, then it tracks your progress on them. If you fall behind on your goal (called “de-railing” in Beeminder parlance), then you can pledge money to stay on track. If you de-rail again, the money […]

What used to be here was the output of a Python blog engine that I wrote when I should have been writing my master’s dissertation in 2006. I liked it because I would write a code snippet which constituted a post, run my script, and out would come perfect XHTML on the other end. Of […]