Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface..

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better..

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist o….

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!.

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's..

You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now..

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market..

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion er….

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again..

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time..

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hai….

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries..

I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks..

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was des….

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer..

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit..

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly ….

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the….

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives..

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost ….

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of mon….