Here are my thoughts and musings on a wide range of topics. Generally, the blog posts that are in this category contain my opinion.
Privacy By Default Online privacy as a field is a whole new world for many people. Cyber-security is ever-changing as technologies are invented or adapted and old tech is made redundant. It is vitally important that we get to grips with what is at stake here, despite the rapidly shifting… Read More »Online Privacy In The Age of Digital Surveillance
Decision making This year poses problem after problem. This year feels like decisions are heavier than they should be. This is what my decision making process currently feels like: There’s an out of control freight train running down some railway tracks. It is bulky and the engine has caught fire,… Read More »On Equality: How can we bring about a more equal society?
How is boredom still a thing? On a recent work call to a web developer he described himself as bored. This is more understandable given the current lockdown situation affecting huge swathes of humanity, but I was considering how many million things I feel I could be getting on with… Read More »On Boredom: Did the Garden of Eden become boring?
Survival Mode for the Pandemic This is about survival. The time to start thinking differently is now. We each need to put in place routines that help us to cope with what is going on. Psychologically speaking, this is different to anything we have experienced before. We are going to… Read More »Some initial thoughts on the Covid-19 Pandemic: Surviving the Lockdown
Pearce’s Main Project David Pearce is the main proponent of The Abolitionist Project which aims to alleviate suffering from all sentient beings. The notions look interesting, the ideas grand. Pearce’s position entails that it is not just desirable to remove all wordly suffering. It will one day be a certainty.… Read More »On David Pearce and the Abolitionist Project
Supermarkets these days It genuinely surprises me when I’m queuing in a supermarket and there is a hold up for a number of minutes. This is a testament to the incremental improvements in selling groceries to the masses and also the lucrative nature of making little changes to big business.… Read More »On the state of the World: Lost in the Supermarket
An Issue for the Coming Decade Between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp there are over 3.5 billion active users. That’s almost half the planet’s population. The social media network has become megalithic, ever-present and seemingly irreplaceable. It’s electronic tentacles stretching around the globe and creeping into our lives. Facebook has capitalised… Read More »Forgoing Facebook’s Offerings: Reducing my Digital Footprint
The decade draws to a close As the last few weeks of 2019 fly past in a blur of damp weather, Christmas preparations and constant reminders to vote in the General Election, I have cause to reflect. I want to get a little philosophical, but more importantly, draw out a… Read More »Philosophical Musings for the End of the Decade
I recently watched The Great Hack on Netflix, a documentary exploring the impact on Digital Rights of the recent scandals affecting the social media titans. I enjoyed the film and found it quite eye-opening in some ways. It confirmed my ambition to be Facebook free. Yet I also thought it… Read More »On Digital Rights and Societal Change: The Great Hack
Britain is Soon to Leave the EU Britain is set to come crashing out of the European Union (EU) in a matter of days or weeks. A friend asked me at the weekend what my opinion on Brexit was and I had to admit I didn’t have a clear answer.… Read More »On Brexit : Why Britain Leaving the EU is Bad
Learning to eat less Sugar the Hard Way I’ve always had a sweet tooth and now it’s come back to bite me. I am suffering for something that (despite my other half’s loving assurance to the contrary) is pretty much all my own fault – a deep filling in one… Read More »On the Evils of Sugar and Feeling Pain
Musical Messages on My Mind A short while ago I had a tune stuck in my head. It went something like whop-whop whop-ding, whop-whop whop-ding and had to be some kind of dance music, but I just couldn’t put a name to the tune or remember what the rest of… Read More »On Parenting : Changes, the Slow Day, and the Timer