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October 8, 2026 Musings

Tag Cloud Glory: A sign of vintage web design

I have finally removed my tag cloud from the sidebar. A beautiful little relic of vintage web design: words in different sizes, floating around proclaiming what I have been thinking about. Except, of course, it tells you absolutely nothing.

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September 26, 2025 Musings

The UX of TfL’s Blackwall Tunnel: Deceptive patterns and Technical Debts (1)

My trip through the Blackwall Tunnel cost me £90 all because of bad UX.

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January 15, 2021 Musings

Bluebeard, Bridgerton and Brontes’s romantic heroes

They are determined to ‘cure’ that person by love. Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women who run with the wolves (1992)

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November 30, 2020 Musings

Heather James: artist

When artist Heather James first moved to London in 1979 after graduating from Bath Academy of Art, she began sketching

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March 6, 2019 Musings

Westworld and the ghosts of AI

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour

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