Posted by I set up this blog back in 2007 as I wanted to write about the things which excited me about technology. And when people ask me what I write about, I invariably say technology. Often I say storytelling, as lots of technological invention is based on desire and our very human love of a good story. Sometimes I say yoga as yoga is life.
However, lots of writing is just about me, my life experiences, sometimes related to technology, other times it’s me as a woman in technology, or a mum wondering how best to guide my girls through this world of technology, and sometimes it is just about me, processing life as it happens.
Here is a list of blogposts about me:
- My little book of talks, September 20, 2025
- When one door closes, keep dazzling yourself, March 13, 2025
- Sunny SoundCloud afternoons, March 29, 2025
- Women in STEM, women in society, January 9, 2025
- Where’s Wiley? Finding the Fermat fella , December 9, 2024
- Ruth Stalker-Fascinating , November 21, 2024
- Fighting, typing, and computing , September 18, 2024
- The complete works , January 30, 2024
- So long Instagram, and thanks for all the pix , November 17, 2023
- Feeling normal at the Transplant Games , September 19, 2023
- Circles of Power: Patriarchy, tech, and tensions in Women’s Spaces , July 14, 2023
- Written on the body , January 2, 2023
- Coding in Minecraft (0): Tenacity , January 9, 2022
- Dazzling yourself , December 14, 2022
- Knowing your story , December 5, 2022
- Homesick and restless , October 28, 2022
- Mutherhood, menopause and mysticism , October 16, 2022
- The Nonconformist , July 8, 2022
- La Belle Époque , March 24, 2022
- A revelation of Ruths , February 18, 2022
- Sign me up! I want to be a ballerina , February 12, 2022
- What’s my why? , January 29, 2022
- Escape: TV, online gaming, and me , November 5, 2021
- Greeting myself , March 13, 2021
- Counting the days , February 16, 2021
- The cave of my heart , October 22, 2020
- Difficult , March 29, 2020
- Stardust and supermoons , March 9, 2020
- Teaching my girls how to code in python , February 26, 2020
- The heart of computer programming , February 17, 2020
- Giving your python a bob martin’s , February 9, 2020
- BikBot: Designing a bikram robot , February 2, 2020
- Just like me , December 9, 2019
- Resonance , December 3, 2019
- 38.5 hours and 51,426 words hath November , November 30, 2019
- The accidental techie (10): Finished , October 24, 2019
- The accidental techie (9): Creating , October 17, 2019
- The accidental techie (8): 20/20 , October 14, 2019
- The accidental techie (7): Lost and found , October 13, 2019
- Social anxiety and emotional resonance on social media , October 11, 2019
- The accidental techie (6): Going inside , October 5, 2019
- Comfort , September 13, 2019
- Our love affair with big data , August 22, 2019
- The accidental techie (5): Shadowing , July 5, 2019
- The accidental techie (4): Flow , June 29, 2019
- The accidental techie (3): Transference California , June 25, 2019
- The accidental techie (2) : The not invited , June 24, 2019
- The accidental techie (1) : Dazzling confidence , June 18, 2019
- The inner life: Tarot and technology , April 18, 2019
- My grey hair two years on , May 28, 2018
- Virtual Presence: Where do we go when we go online? , May 8, 2018
- Connection online: Tracing the space between us , April 28, 2018
- Society of the mind: A Rhumba of Ruths , January 31, 2018
- Sit. Feast on your blogs , January 27, 2018
- My name is Ruth , January 20, 2018
- Connection: Lighting the fire , January 15, 2018
- Women: Society, Storytelling, Technology (1) , August 16, 2017
- Creating space (5): When people can’t stand you , July 19, 2017
- When the Internet becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it , May 29, 2017
- Trusting technology, ourselves, and others , May 9, 2017
- Fifty shades of my grey hair , December 19, 2016
- Carpe diem: Travels without my phone , December 1, 2016
- Storytelling: Intimacy, privacy and social media , October 24, 2016
- Gaming: Storytelling and ludology , October 17, 2016
- Storyboarding tales, technology and my CV , December 9, 2015
- Women in Storytelling: Saint, Spy, Suffragette , December 3, 2015
- How stories matter , November 14, 2015
- Feeding the machine: The embodied human in a social media world , August 23, 2015
- Writing fast and slow , August 4, 2015
- Ritual: Feast on your life , July 9, 2015
- Mind the gap! Or, is it watch this space? , July 7, 2015
- Augmenting humans with social media , May 27, 2015
- Travels with my phone , May 1, 2015
- Ambivalent web design , October 23, 2014
- Yoga Lessons: Life on the edge , January 23, 2014
- Is there anybody out there? (Or why do I blog?) , December 29, 2013
- Women Centre Stage , October 29, 2013
- Beautiful content by Bitstrips , October 27, 2013
- Mindfulness: The love within your love , July 21, 2013
- Emerging Technologies: OWN the technology , July 13, 2013
- The view from my yoga mat , July 13, 2013
- Storytelling: The hero’s quest , May 17, 2013
- Storytelling and embodiment: The stories we tell ourselves , December 18, 2012
- Storytelling: The power of fiction , December 12, 2012
- Experience: Where am I? Where have I been? Where am I going? , October 18, 2012
- Chemotherapy: The year of my hair , October 3, 2012
- Experiencing embodiment , February 24, 2012
- Upgrading your embodiment , August 6, 2011
- The power of the written word , July 23, 2011
- Get stuffed Stuff Magazine , July 15, 2011
- Goodbye Kubrick, hello twenty ten , July 14, 2011
- Jasmine , February 17, 2008
- Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me , October 26, 2007
- Who ordered pizza? , July 27, 2007
- Human-computer interaction: Can you see what it is yet? , June 21, 2007
- Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face , February 20, 2007
I asked ChatGPT to summarise the titles, I chopped it down to get the 450 tokens it processes at one time when you use the free account and this is what it gave me:
This eclectic collection of titles explores a deeply personal and intellectual journey across themes of identity, technology, storytelling, embodiment, and social connection. From coding in Minecraft to musings on grey hair, from women in STEM to the emotional resonance of social media, the work blends reflection, humour, and critique. It celebrates resilience, questions societal norms, and explores digital spaces as both empowering and alienating. Across recurring motifs—”accidental techie”, storytelling, and digital presence—the author contemplates selfhood, memory, gender, and transformation in an evolving technological world. Ultimately, it’s a dazzling, thoughtful chronicle of a mind navigating modern life with curiosity and candour.
It uses all of the words I have used but in a different way, in a way I wouldn’t, for example, I would never describe my writing as dazzling, as being a scientist first and foremost when I am writing something, it is not for me to say whether something is dazzling or not, especially as it would sound like I am right up my blog, though I know I have written several blogs with the title dazzle in.
It is and it is not all at, simultaneously, a suitable summary of the titles, which is a tantalising (omg, I am beginning to write like ChatGPT) idea for a blogpost in and of itself.