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EVE Crews: Bridge Dynamics and Crew Simulation for New Eden
EVE Crews is an AI-assisted passion project that injects bridge officer and crew activity straight into your EVE experience. By running alongside EVE Online as an API-linked browser-based companion...
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1984: The Year I Invented Roleplaying Games
1984 was the year I invented roleplaying games. Or so I thought. I had yet to encounter the work of my arch-rivals and peers Gygax & Arneson (Dungeons & Dragons, 1974), Jackson &...
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AI Wish Fulfilment: Imagineering Spaceship Crews
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I played with spaceships. Last week, I was waiting at a garage for my car to be fixed. These two unrelated events just collided in a joyously productive way,...
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Six Years Later: How the UK Government Missed Early Chances to Slow COVID Spread
Close to the 6th anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the independent UK Covid-19 Inquiry has published the third of ten module reports and recommendations, this time focussed on ‘the...
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Adventures in AI: How I Accidentally ‘Vibe Coded’ a Video Game
It’s fair to say that my planned AI-in-healthcare career reboot has taken a bit of an unexpected turn. After resigning from my healthcare management post in October, it was fully my intention after a...
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The Value of AI at Home
Decades ago, they promised us robot butlers and flying cars. We’ve settled for Alexa (often as helpful as a deaf grandmother), Roombas, and self-driving Cybertrucks. I wonder if the Jetsons and other...
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How Claude AI Became My Career Coach (And Maybe My Boss)
When I stepped down from my role as a Clinical Workforce Manager last month, I didn’t have a clear plan. I had many reasons for leaving, but no defined next step. I turned to AI for a solution....
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We’re at an existential inflection point. The world is changing before our eyes, beneath our feet, and behind our backs. ‘But it always has!’, I hear you say. And I accept that’s just how the passage...
View ArticleThe Least Worst Decisions
When I started blogging about healthcare issues over a decade ago, my motivation was to shine a light on the failings I had witnessed in over a decade working for an NHS ambulance trust. I managed that...
View ArticleNovel Blog #5: Unicorns, Wild Geese, Golden Snitches (or The Hunt for a...
It’s been several months since I finished my novel. It feels like a lifetime, but I have little to show for it aside from the satisfaction of having written a whole 85,000-word metaphysical fantasy...
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Michael’s First Legal Pint
It’s hard to know what to say on a day like today. My nephew Michael would have been 18. After spending the last year writing about him in a fictional sense, it’s difficult to come back to the reality...
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Novel Blog #4: It’s World Book Day and I’ve Finished* Mine!
It’s World Book Day. At least, I hope it is, or I should probably expect a concerned phone call from my kids’ school after they went in dressed as Alice in Wonderland and a Nazgul from Lord of the...
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Novel Blog #3: Milestones, Millstones, the Spectre of Uncertainty and the...
I’ve just realised it’s been nearly two months since I blogged about my novel progress. It’s funny, over the weeks I’d thought of plenty of things to share about the experience so far (and honestly...
View ArticleNovel Blog #2: Long Covid vs Writing
When I decided to plunge naively into attempted professional authordom, I had originally intended to write a weekly blog to report my progress. However, it is only now, at the end of week three that...
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Novel Blog #1: Distraction, Discipline and Writing in Wagars
It’s been a week since the kids went back to school and I’ve been able to resume my ambition to write a complete novel. It’s a running joke among writers that we are world-class procrastinators easily...
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Life. We’ve all got one. Until we haven’t. A succession of challenging life events has brought me to a tipping point. The last decade has seen the end of my ambulance career due to back injury, the...
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How Odyssey Reignited My Passion for Elite Dangerous
This is my personal review of Elite Dangerous Odyssey, and I make no apologies that it is unambiguously positive. For me, Elite Dangerous has been revitalised and revolutionised by the addition of...
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The Shunned
Mallory watched as the man died. He wasn’t as old as his haggard face looked, but his 37-year-old body had been broken by the ravages of their forsaken existence. Each gurgling breath was weaker, less...
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The Half-Life of Long Covid
It’s been nearly six months since I tested positive to COVID-19. I am still ill. I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with my inability to shake it off, and equally with the understandable misconceptions...
View ArticlePress Statement on Behalf of Laura Holyland
Yesterday, Laura Holyland gave brave testimony in Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court in the case against her former husband, Karl, who was found guilty of coercive and controlling behaviour during their...
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