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1998

Topic: A meme - get someone else to pick a year of your life for you to write about. Sally Brewer asked me to write about 1998.
1998 started badly. I went to a New Year house party with some friends, and while I was assured there were no cats in the house, what […]


Museum Copyright

I was reading an article by BoingBoing pundit, SF author and copywonk Cory Doctorow in Make magazine the other day (I’m afraid that there’s only tiny snippet of the article available for free on-line.)
He’d visited the Greenwich Maritime Museum, full of hundred-year-old sextants, and even older devices that people used to find their way […]


Obsession

Reading an article this morning, The Design Disease, reminded me of something I’ve long held to be true - that while you or I might create Art now and again, it’s not the same thing as the urge to be an Artist. (Or in this case Designer.)
Everyone I know who has become a successful […]