guthrie

Commented on Business as usual
Yup, Policework has changed a fair bit even since my dad retired 7 years ago. Removal of intiative changes what a policeman can do, narrowing their options. And there is paperwork etc. Ok, paperwork isn't a new complaint, I recall...
Commented on Inbound maintenance!
Ok, I was a bit unsure about this logging in business, but it has been explained and seems to work ok, so here we go....
Commented on Scared now.
Come on, any budding mad scientist knows you should buy your equipment and materials as separately as possible, preferably in cash, not blundering about online ordering things from Amazon. That'll just set off alarm bells somewhere....

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)