Crippled e-books are worthless

2020-12-212020-12-14 — Literature, PhD Diary, Technology — 3 min read

My university issued this notice during exam time – A time when students are most in need of revision material: A number of eBooks are in high demand at the […]

Research papers are not easy to read

2020-11-052020-11-04 — PhD Diary, Productivity, Technology — 7 min read

Research papers are not easy to read. There are loads of ways we could improve them. Here’s a few.

We need more e-ink desktop monitors

2020-05-252020-05-18 — Gadgets, Productivity, Technology — 6 min read

I couple of years ago I got an e-reader. I was initially apprehensive but I ended up enjoying it. What would it be like to use such a display for office work?

“Smart” Labelling & Legislation

2020-03-182020-03-27 — Politics, Technology — 9 min read

I think the time has come for adapting legislation and applying consumer warning labelling to smart technology. I have a go at explaining how I’d do this

First impressions of the Raspberry Pi 4

2020-02-102020-03-27 — Gadgets — 4 min read

Buying a pi for the first time, my first impressions with the 4B, and the hunt for a random hex code.

Nest Ramble

2020-01-132020-03-27 — Gadgets, Privacy, Technology — 8 min read

Technophobe yells at cloud

Building a PC

2019-08-122020-03-27 — Gadgets, Technology — 8 min read

I’ve been into computers for a fair while – pretty much all of my life. Yet I’ve never really been into the hardware, and haven’t ever built my own PC. With some recent struggles with my laptop I decided it was time to build a proper personal use desktop.

Internet Censorship and Age Verification

2019-05-132020-03-27 — Politics, Privacy, Technology — 10 min read

The UK government will enact a law that requires online providers of pornography to vet the age of their users. As I see it, this poses some very real problems.