Pete Hindle

This pattern is amazing.

Confederacy of Dunces is a book from the late 1960’s, set in New Orleans. I first heard of it from the writer/speaker/internet guy Merlin Mann, who uses a line from it as his Twitter ‘handle’, differentiating his presence on the mighty microblogging service from his more professional website, 43folders.com. As I said in my last [...]

Now that the scary ’100th post’ is out of the way, this seems like a good time to talk about the program of reading I’m undertaking this summer. For my coursework, I’m slogging through what seems to be an unending amount of PDF’s and websites which suck all the joy out of reading. I even [...]

This is my one hundredth post. I’d like to say that I’ve got something either deep or meaningful to say, but I’ve just been staring at the blank pages of a word processor today for so long that I’m without anything interesting to share.

“…what I ache for is a world where people really dream of incredible things, and above people who are in charge of the media, people who paid a lot of money, actually use their imagination and intelligence to take me places and tell me things I don’t know.” Adam Curtis, 2007

I’ve just brought a new bag. I should explain; I ‘m only really excited by the prospect of buying bags and notebooks. After all, anything could go into them. This means that I own a lot of notebooks (they’re cheap) and some really swanky bags. I tend to pay at least £40 for a bag [...]