About

This blog started in 2010 to record

my adventures in reclaiming my computer, using free and open software and operating systems wherever possible and generally asking questions about what an old idiot like me can do with a computer these days.

Now, 15 years later in 2025, I’m relaunching it as a static web site using Pelican.

The journey had started in 2008 in Banff in Canada, having been invited there to teach locative media with the software Mobile Bristol that became Calvium. I ended up learning more than I probably taught, getting introduced to Free and Open Source Software through, and the Linux operating system and haven’t looked back since.

Now my whole family runs Linux on their laptops, our artistic work is all produced on open source software and (with a lot of help from Malte), I even manage our own virtual server which sits on a hard drive in Moabit, Berlin from where these very words are flying to you across the network.

The blog that started as a document of learning about programming and Linux, grew to accommodate wild flowers, walks, rants (of course) and neolithic stone circles.

Last updated: 25 May 2025