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My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket

Why I quit Dropbox, and why Europe is quietly doing the same thing with its fighter jets, its spy software and its money
My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket
I quit Dropbox this month and moved my files to Proton Drive. Not earth shattering news but one small step for man and all that. Nobody at Dropbox will have noticed. It was one bloke moving a few gigabytes from one cloud-shaped box to another. But the reason I did it is a small symptom of something much bigger going on, and the bigger thing is worth a blog post. I can't remember exactly when I signed up to Dropbox, but it was well over a decade ago. Back in 2008 it was one of those rare... read more
 

AI Accelerated Writing

If there is a book in you can AI get it out?
AI Accelerated Writing
A few months ago I blogged about a business plan as a joke. This month I’m writing about a real business plan. My first novel has just dropped on Amazon. Somerset Maugham wrote in 1937: “There is an impression abroad that everyone has it in him to write one book… but if that means a good book, that impression is false.” What he’s really saying is that the difference between amateur and professional writers is craft, something arrived at through learning and practice, then maintained... read more
 

Grumpy, Sober and Taking Notes: Ten Modern Annoyances

A tour of the little things driving me quietly round the bend
Grumpy, Sober and Taking Notes: Ten Modern Annoyances
One of the things I've noticed since I gave up the booze (in May 2024) is that I'm an exceptionally judgemental person. I don't know where I get it from as my parents were really easy-going, tolerant folk. Not me. Hardly an hour goes by where I don't find something to moan and groan about. I thought perhaps I was just experiencing the common cognitive bias which psychologists call the 'fundamental attribution error'. That's the one where, for example, while driving you think that... read more
 
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