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No, your iPad is not getting MacOS. Stop asking
15 Jan 2025 | original ↗

This is going to be a short post as I have already touched on this topic a while ago. Recently there has been an increase in iPad related talk on...

Is my future offline?
12 Jan 2025 | original ↗

As I’m sure many of you have noticed, I have recently been on something of a cleanse. Ejecting things from my life which I feel are no longer relevant. Trying...

Bible translation comparisons and thoughts, from an interested reader.
30 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Recently I was reading the translation notes in my NLT bible and there were a few lines which made me raise an eyebrow. This led me to go on a...

My 20204, in review.
26 Dec 2024 | original ↗

The end of the year is looming, and we approach the dark, melancholic week which sets its home between Christmas and the new year. Like a troll on a bridge,...

I wrote a ‘novella’ – Of Gods and Vampires. A Denouement story.
24 Dec 2024 | original ↗

I wrote a ‘novella’ (it’s a long novella…) Please see below for a download in PDF format. Of Gods and Vampires is an episodic story set inside the Denouement universe,...

Towards the light.
22 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Recently I tried the dark mode on my Kindle for the first time since I have had it. It’s strange that I ever tried it at all, give that in...

Writing a novella – ‘Of Gods and Vampires’ (coming soon)
12 Dec 2024 | original ↗

I wrote a thing. For Christmas. It is not ‘Christmasy.’ When I say that I write it for Christmas, that’s not entirely true, it just happens that it’s basically finished,...

Whats on my desk – December 2024 edition
7 Dec 2024 | original ↗

These last few months have been transformative in many ways. I have been, as I have outlined in a previous post, Ejecting Things from my life, as well as changing...

Dandelion-Utilitarian has a NET & a COM
1 Dec 2024 | original ↗

I wanted to take a moment to explain something which I have only recently realised maybe confusing. Both Dandelion-Utilitarian.com and Dandelion-Utilitarian.net exist. The dot com, is my main public facing...

The Hex has been lifted.
29 Nov 2024 | original ↗

We all move on from things, and it often feels like a good move, it feels liberating and enchiching. I have had a lot of that feeling of liberty recently...

Static, in motion – The formation of a man with terrible taste.
28 Nov 2024 | original ↗

The Outer Limits opening contains the now legendary words, “we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical.” Like many kids, watching the scary black and white episodes through...

Kindling, Copyright, Catastrophe
23 Nov 2024 | original ↗

I’ve used a Kindle as my main book-window since the Kindle Voyage was launched in 2014 and since that time I’ve read many a controversy about the way Amazon manage...

A desk. Sans Monitor
16 Nov 2024 | original ↗

This week I had a very minor problem with the monitor at my desk, it has developed, suddenly, a small light bleed, or bright spot, across the right edge....

The micro mirror miracle. (Micro.hexdsl.com)
12 Nov 2024 | original ↗

You can skip this entire article and just click here, if I’m totally honest. If you would like to know, slightly more, keep reading… Micro.Blog has come up on my...

Time can’t split. Projects eat time.
7 Nov 2024 | original ↗

No matter how productive I can become, and no matter how skilled I become, I still have twenty-four hours in a day. Much like nothing exceeds the speed of light,...

Time, the secret eBay offset
5 Nov 2024 | original ↗

As I said in my last post, I have been using eBay recently for the first time in many years. I have even made a pretty reasonable amount of money...

Download: Tales of the Denoumeverse – Week (A book I wrote)
4 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Starting a little after the events of ‘In Her we trust’ (Denouement 2) this story, for the first time gives us a look at the adventure from other characters. This...

Ejecting things
3 Nov 2024 | original ↗

The things.   It has recently come to my attention that a lot of the stuff in my office has dust on it. This isn’t because I fail to...

Download: In Her We Trust (A book I wrote)
3 Nov 2024 | original ↗

This is the second book in the Denouement series Still reeling from the events of the first Denouement adventure, Jon and his unwilling group of friends slowly get pulled into a war for control of reality itself. Can the charming...

Download: Denouement (A book I wrote)
2 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Aliens, robots, non-organic life forms, space ships and neon skies are the backdrop to a mystery about reality, family, time, love and the memories that define us. What would you do if you woke up with no memory of your...

Download: Nancy & Holmes (A book I wrote)
31 Oct 2024 | original ↗

When Nancy first meets the detective who lives in her head, she assumed he was a symptom of her drinking, trauma of her parents’ death or just a homeless ghost. Then the first corpse turns up on the beach outside...

Download: Chronicles of Ned – Space, to Breathe (A book I wrote)
31 Oct 2024 | original ↗

This is the first short story in the Chronicles of Ned. Ned is like you and me, but his friends are far stupider, and he somehow attracts a lot of oddness to his life. Ned occasionally gets abducted by aliens,...

What’s on my desk
26 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Over the past few years my desk has changed. Here, i chronicle it. I lost the dates when i left my last web platform, but i kept the pictures.

Nebula got me
24 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A few weeks ago, I tried the Nebula streaming service. I even wrote a blog about it. At the end of writing that post I noted that my thoughts on Nebula were complicated. Once my week long Guest Pass was...

Productivity – The Value Problem (A rambling self-indulgent post)
20 Oct 2024 | original ↗

This was the moment when my productivity hungry brain turned on me. I started thinking about my personal life with a productivity glint in my eye

I tried Nebula (Video streaming service)
13 Oct 2024 | original ↗

For those who are not aware, Nebula is a pretty interesting streaming service which, according to Wikipedia, has been around for five years (this sounds wrong to me though, as I literarily heard about it last year! – but that...

Niceferatu Comic now has a proper link.
7 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Those who follow me on various places such as Discord, or Bluesky, or Void will know that I have a great time making a silly little comic called Niceferatu about a nice Vampire fella and his friend ‘Stalk,’ and cat...

Back on WordPress (I know, I know.)
5 Oct 2024 | original ↗

I didn’t like how Quartz looked on mobile, one thing led to another and BOOM we’re on WordPress now…. I’ll put content back on here over the next few days (weeks) ❤️ The main issue with Quartz was the way...

Art is easy but good art is hard
23 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Art more like… no I got nothing. Long-time readers likely know that I have had a not so secret desire for a long time to draw my own comic. I have a few ideas for things like plot, visuals and...

Some iPads, and, The Revolution
20 Aug 2024 | original ↗

The revolution will not be on desktop. A tale of of two iPads, which ends in revolutionary musings. For a long time, I owned a terrible XPS13 (1250U CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB Storage) which had major cooling issues. It throttled to the...

DEVONthink, a notes forever home?
21 Jun 2024 | original ↗

DEVONthink, the final form? I made a video, I’ll link it at the bottom of this post, but the main thing to take away here is that DEVONthink is great. It’s Scrivener for notes. While I still need to deep...

Hexmark Showdown 2023
23 Dec 2023 | original ↗

Merry Christmas one and all. This year due to time restrictions, my friend and I were not able to have a script showdown, like last year. With this in mind, I present to you my own script offering. A time...

Regrets and realisations
4 Nov 2023 | original ↗

WARNING! Please warned this is a personal post that I felt I needed to share. It’s not about writing, technology or anything else I usually muse about. I have been thinking a lot about my father recently. You should know...

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