Journal
Articles
To the moon
I’D LIKE TO believe that I wasn’t jumping on the bandwagon. But don’t we all tell ourselves little white...
Gum packet poem
My arms flecked with brown stained with sun I masticate ...
Keeping faith with words
FOR MOST OF us who care to think about such things, the teenager was invented by JD Salinger in...
Offshore
The gathering with placards is, give or take, the normal size. The speech is not unlike the last but tweaked for the...
Early adopter
ONE TWO THREE running, jumping hops and I launch into the sky, wings beating down hard, plastic feathers scraping...
First life, second death
IN 2011, AS a researcher interested in death and mourning, I decided to explore the now ‘mature’ virtual social...
Dealer’s chance
‘IT HAS THE capacity to change everything – the way we work, the way we learn and play, even, maybe,...
Don’t do it yourself
IT’S FUNNY TO think that a broken gearbox could lead to a physics student folding T-shirts in my lounge...
Dummy
MAGGIE IMAGINES THE stale Ginger Nuts and Milk Arrowroots that will be in the biscuit jar at break time,...
Cyclones, fake news and history
IN THE DARK before dawn on 5 March 1899, half way up the eastern edge of Cape York Peninsula,...
When big tech met books
THE FIRST TIME I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008, I had an appointment with Google. Its...
Salvaged fragment from the recorded small morning hours rage of the vampire
of Silicon Valley 12
[ ]woe to tetravalent metalloids and over eager semiconductors! Beards of purest silicon,...
