Writing
Thoughts & Reflections
On technology, sustainability, data encoding, and building things that matter.
2025
Oct 2Colour Glyphs — When a Picture Paints a Thousand Words (Literally)
What if a picture could literally contain those words and more? Wrapping up the Colour Glyphs experiment.
From Green IT to Sustainable Cloud: Lessons from 2007
Back in 2007 I was writing about the energy impact of office IT equipment. The context has shifted but the fundamentals remain.
ColGlyphCode: Progress on a New Approach to Offline Data Encoding
What if the content wasn't somewhere else, but right there in the image itself? Building on QR codes with colour and glyphs.
AI and the Rise of the Digital Cottage Industry
We may be witnessing a reversal of the Industrial Revolution. We're not watching the end of work — we're witnessing the birth of the digital cottage industry.