Unexpected Inspiration
Having a day off by the seaside. Just off the Easter Bank Holiday and with quite a few activities recently — from directing plays to a course in counselling, new cloud platform at work and… Read More »Unexpected Inspiration
Photography, Books, Arts and Sports
Photography, Books, Arts and Sports
Apple Business: One Platform to Replace Three
Apple Business launches 14th April across 200+ countries, replacing Apple Business Manager, Business Essentials, and Business Connect with a single unified platform. Built-in MDM, Zero-Touch deployment, business email with your own domain, app distribution, and… Read More »Apple Business: One Platform to Replace Three
Directing at OSO – Writers’ Studio Spring 2026
Back in rehearsal rooms this week. 🎠Earlier this week I went back to OSO ARTS CENTRE | The theatre on Barnes Pond for the first table read with the actors I’ll be directing in… Read More »Directing at OSO – Writers’ Studio Spring 2026
A Periodic Table for AI
Before Mendeleev, chemists had 60 elements and no theory. Before DVMIB, multimodal ML had hundreds of loss functions and no shared language. A team of Emory physicists just changed that — deriving CLIP, Barlow Twins,… Read More »A Periodic Table for AI
Directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? – OSO Theatre 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase
I had the joy of directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? at the OSO Theatre’s 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase — a beautifully intimate piece about love, uncertainty and the small moments that change… Read More »Directing What’s Going to Happen to Us? – OSO Theatre 2025 Autumn Writers’ Studio Showcase
What’s Going to Happen to Us – Directing at OSO Theatre
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been invited to direct Merry Graham’s short new play What’s Going to Happen to Us? for a showcase at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes on 23 November 2025 under the theme… Read More »What’s Going to Happen to Us – Directing at OSO Theatre
Now Reading: Project Hail Mary
I’m currently a third of the way through Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” and absolutely loving it! 🚀 The way he blends humour with fascinating physics is just brilliant. Plus, I just found out there’s… Read More »Now Reading: Project Hail Mary
The Book Has Landed – 2nd Edition in Hand!
There are few moments as satisfying in a writer’s life as the thud of a package on the doorstep—especially when that package contains the culmination of years of work, revision, and relentless debugging. I’m thrilled… Read More »The Book Has Landed – 2nd Edition in Hand!
Just Read: Cyborg
“We can rebuild him”: Rediscovering Cyborg by Martin Caidin After a Lifetime with The Six Million Dollar Man “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s… Read More »Just Read: Cyborg
Just Read: Bob Mortimer’s Novels
Having recently delved into Bob Mortimer’s novels The Satsuma Complex and its sequel The Hotel Avocado, I found myself immersed in a world where the absurd meets the heartfelt, all narrated with Mortimer’s signature wit. 🍊 The Satsuma Complex… Read More »Just Read: Bob Mortimer’s Novels