The Five Basic Literacies

2023-06-152023-06-15 — Personal — 10 min read

Numeracy, Language, Philosophy, Technology, and Creativity – How I would want formal education to reprioritise its approach to learning.

Completing WaniKani Level 60

2023-03-162023-03-16 — Personal — 6 min read

A reflection on my journey through learning to read the Japanese kanji with the help of WaniKani.

Goodbye 2022, and Looking forward to 2023

2023-01-032023-01-03 — Personal — 3 min read

I look back at some of the things that went well for me and others this year, and some of my hopes going forwards.

Unstable Property Ladder

2021-04-162021-04-15 — Personal — 4 min read

I have recently had conversations about home ownership and mortgages. That whole property ladder thing seems a bit fraudulent.

2020年末日本語の進行の報告

2020-12-312020-12-19 — Japanese, Personal — 1 min read

2020年は私の進行の報告がある。日本語を勉強する！

漢字勉強する

2020-03-232020-03-27 — Japanese, Literature, Personal — 1 min read

In this blog post I talk about some of the tools and books I’ve been reading in my quest to teach myself 日本語

Aberdeen & ITiCSE 2019

2019-07-302020-03-27 — Personal, PhD Diary, Photography, Science, Travel — 8 min read

I recently attended the ITiCSE Conference in Aberdeen.

The EuroS&P Experience

2019-07-012020-03-27 — Personal, PhD Diary, Science, Travel — 16 min read

I recently attended the EuroS&P conference, and the co-located EuroUSec workshop. This year both were held in Stockholm, Sweden.

二つかく

2019-04-292020-03-27 — Japanese, Personal — 1 min read

LonMの日本語おそういたいつづける。

Data Policy Compliance

2019-03-182020-03-27 — Personal, PhD Diary, Privacy, Science — 5 min read

Recently, Google took an extension down from the chrome web store that I had previously been using as part of a research project. Here are my thoughts on the matter.

一　かきます

2019-03-132020-03-27 — Japanese, Personal — 1 min read

きょう、　かきたい　です。