An open letter to David Burrowes MP following his recent article on gay marrage in the UK

Dear Mr Burrowes,

Since your election in 2001 I have been impressed with the work that you have done both for your Enfield Southgate constituency, of…

Dr Who Eulogy

It’s important to say up-front that this wasn’t given by me or, in fact, given for anyone I knew. My friend Simon H. knew Matt well and has received permission from the speaker (Ian) to have a copy of this put up online. I certainly think it bares repeating.

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Lots of gaps here too, key missing…

Linkage reduction

So, I’ve got a ton of starred links sitting in my Google Reader feed that I’m going to either have to dump or put ‘out there’ somehow. I could stick them all on Twitter one at a time but that seems like overkill so I’m going to stick them in here instead…

Digital Rights

My post YRS 2012 quote

The way to happier society is through more democracy and a fairer economic model. The way to achieve those things is through open information and sharing. A major way to foster openness and collaboration is to do so through software. Want to create a better future? Teach kids to code!

Young Rewired State 2012

So, it’s all over for another year. I discovered how difficult it is to mentor a team of remote kids based in their own homes across the internet. Not because of technology issues, although we had those, but because it’s very easy for them to drop out at any time and not come back (or…

The “Teaching Kids to Code” community desperately needs a curator

I had this grand plan (yes, another one). I was going to write a “Coding for Kids” website. I was going to be epic with links to websites (including thumbnails), tons of resources, how to set up your own coding club…

Wow

I’ve been writing letters, faxes and emails on behalf of Amnesty International’s Urgent Action network for over ten years.

No-one’s ever responded before — never mind the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico!

Book review — Songs of Distant Earth

As part of the previously mentioned Day Zero Project and I have been asking people to recommend books and films for us to read/view. Mostly we’ve piled these up so far but the two books I have read have been an unfortunate disappointment (Jamrac’s Menagerie) and…