john.carlyleclarke

Commented on Competition Time!
Employee Y was discovered to have rewritten key parts of our accounting system in LOLCODE, in clear violation of official Laundry coding standards which mandate use of ALGOL. While less serious that previous occasions where employees experimenting with TECO or...
Commented on Making history personal
I went to school at Salisbury Cathedral School, and boarded. According to Wikipedia, parts of that building date from the 13th Century, so that would have to be the oldest building I've slept in. As for oldest building I've been...

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)