Little Dad

When Occupy popped up last year, people would say “What are they protesting about? They don’t believe in anything”. That was how it looked, but there was more to it than that. They were occupying the here and now expressly *without* common purpose or agenda – and the process of doing that is a very…

Vinay Gupta has asked me to contribute to his "Truth & Beauty" strand at Hub Westminster next week.  He asked for something both pro- and retro-spective and something that showed more than one facet of what I do, have done, and probably will do when I get round to it, perhaps.  And, of course, including…

Over the weekend I really enjoyed watching @sizemore and some chums making a sci-fi short in 48 hours for the Sci Fi London Film Festival 48 hours competition.  I was even more impressed when I saw what they came up with. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21914737 w=500&h=283]  Mike opened up to questions on his blog and I asked about…

Well not quite, but this time next week I’ll have been back in London for 24 hours. So it’s probably time to start counting backwards from then and getting some ideas of things to do between now and Thursday in place. My flight from New York leaves at 7.30pm so I’ll need to be at…

I had a better night on the train, well kinda.  I worked out a couple of comfortable positions to lie in (for some value of comfortable) and I alternated between them.  At one point I thought "There's a blog post in here: 'The 10 most comfortable ways to sleep in a coach seat on Amtrak'"…

Monday I knew that going badgeless was absolutely the right idea.   I'm not feeling the constant worry of being in the wrong place or the wrong panel or being frustrated thinking about panels, going along expecting something interesting and finding the same old drivel. I hung out with some friends and then had lunch…