Software
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Rubbish AI
Six bins and an unhelpful leaflet: how AI helped me build a personal bin widget in 35 minutes.
UK
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Wildfire
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Wildfires & Heatwaves
Things will be quiet here for a little while - 8,500 papers don't filter themselves. Elsewhere: Mazowe convalesces under his own fan, the garden is being kept alive by bucket, and a wildfire visualisation is quietly taking shape.
The longest week
Mazowe, our indomitable Welsh Terrier, turned 14 in May. He earned the moniker 'table shark' when he was younger — partly for his habit of circling a meal table, partly for his slightly recurved tail, evoking a shark's dorsal fin.
Suntan Lotion & Semiotics
Every heatwave, the cameras find the same shot: ice cream, paddling pools, sunbathers in the park. In May and June that imagery sat alongside 2,700 estimated heat deaths in England and Wales. Representation doesn't just describe risk - it decides how seriously we take it.
A week, in pictures
Freezing in an emergency isn't fear — it's a failure to retrieve a behavioural template. A go-bag simulation with Year 10–12 students proved the point: only one packed a toothbrush, and almost nobody thought to bring a bag. Try my virtual version built on the train home.
Travel
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A week, mainly in pictures...
It has been a week of suffering in some form - through travel, allergy or exposure to the relentless misery of
Fourteen
Our dog turns fourteen. A day trip to the North Norfolk coast was the only appropriate way to celebrate on an unexpectedly warm and sunny day.
Tour of Britain 2025
The Tour of Britain swept past the end of our road, and with only a Leica in hand, I gambled on catching speed with slowness.
UCL
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Back to School
A red letter day - a new chapter, marked by purpose and the hope of adding good to the world.
AI
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AI can't be serious?
AI driven electronic line calls are not the problem in SW19, how acceptance of change and how trust is built through implementation is the greater challenge.