I specialise in creative use of digital media, copywriting, and bright ideas.

I'm into technology, the arts, electronic music, design and typography, public information campaigns, and many weird and wonderful things in between.

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Just like starting over

There's still about a month to go until this year's Culture Hack Scotland event in Glasgow, and I'm learning to code. Again.

I've been coding since I was 8 or 9 years old, but it's been a long while since I've built anything that handles graphics - not since the heady days of QBASIC, in fact. Since then, I've been through Visual Basic, then on to PHP and other web-based shenanigans. However, Processing - a language which seems to basically be a simplified front for Java - has got me back into the graphics-based fun that first got me interested in programming.

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Panel: “Beyond Twitter”

I was on the panel for a Guardian Culture Professionals Network online chat about going beyond the basics in social media.

You can check it out here.

Bash script to backup OS X apps

As a happy OS X user with a healthy distrust for Apple and the App Store, I wanted to back up my apps to a DVD-R. After having to reinstall OS X one day, I reached for my backed-up apps disc, only to find a significant problem: it takes ages to copy them back. So long, in fact, that I ended up downloading them all from the App Store again, which rather defeated the point of backing them up.

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