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A salvage

At the start of this month, I began my first vacation in
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blogging

13 years

I realised some time ago that I completed 13 years of blogging
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blogging

Tech bloggers and the poverty of style

I created my writing habit by performing it over a decade (and
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active voice

The passive is political

If Saruman is the stupid shit people say, I have often found
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anxiety

Fog of war

August 2019 was a crappy month. I’m just emerging from nasty
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Blade Runner

Being understood

Before the definitive version of Blade Runner was due to be released
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irony

Writing, journalism and the revolutionary spirit

One of my favourite essays of all time – insofar as that’s
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addiction

Why I like writing

Thought I’d quickly put my two cents down. 1. It exposes
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commas

Dude, where's my comma?

(Update: Includes Gopal Gandhi’s reply.) Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s lead in The
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Camera Lucida

Clio's passion

Dear Q, This mail is not intended to be an apology as
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Orhan Pamuk

Hope.

Every time I read Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel Prize citation lecture, ‘My
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QWERTY

Who talks like that?

Four-and-half years of engineering, one year of blogging and one year of
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