Cowboy Wally

Commented on Catching a Blighty
Let me get this straight - A charge is made: "It is no wonder that the US citizenry has a much more relaxed attitude towards wars than people in Europe, especially as in current wars soldiers are pretty much drawn...
Commented on Catching a Blighty
It is a God-damned shame that the sacrifice of millions in WWI is being turned into a feel-good talking point. My great uncle on my father's side was Private Thomas Pincombe Bovingdon (Bovingdon is also one of my middle names)....

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)