Another San Francisco

Another San Francisco

Every so often I am called to mevio‘s San Francisco offices for a week or so of business, meetings, and general face-to-face bonding. I never look forward to the disruption of travel and being away from home, but am invariably grateful for them. This time proved to be a very different experience to previous trips. [...]


New eBay is not old eBay

New eBay is not old eBay

Moving home is the perfect excuse to clear out all those things I no longer have use of. But the options are narrowing in where sell stuff. For many of us, eBay remains the default location for second hand goods on the net. Paper-based classifieds having long gone to the dogs and most online classified [...]


Persistent Spirit audiobook Chapter 2

Persistent Spirit audiobook Chapter 2

TABLE RAPPERS – PERSISTENT SPIRIT CHAPTER 2 Following the directions on Merrick’s note, Keynes’ worst fears are realised and he struggles to come to terms with a forgotten friend. Story running time: 20 minutes Total running time: 30 minutes Available from TableRappers.com or here: Or you can listen right here If you have a podcast [...]


Persistent Spirit Chapter 1 is released

Persistent Spirit Chapter 1 is released


If you have subscribed to the RSS feed or with iTunes, then you will probably have already downloaded Chapter 1 of Persistent Spirit.

If not, then you can listen to it from this site – in a popup window – by clicking above right where it says "Click here to listen right now". All currently published Chapters will be available in this floating feed player, so you can be sure to be up to date with the latest release.

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Email productivity – the Quit button

Email productivity – the Quit button

I have a new productivity tool, it’s called the Mail.app Quit button. Not only is email the most intrusive distractor of focused task completion, but it’s a grand excuse to choose not to focus. Control over tasks is about just that: control. A permanently open email client is anything but control. Emails pop in at [...]