by Scott | Jan 3, 2017 | meme, Writing
Music has many uses. It fills your head with stimulus that can be used to stuff many a void. But, more often that not, music is about the setting or alteration of mood. Calming when you need to feel calm, uplifting when you’re down. Reminiscing when you need to...
by Scott | Aug 26, 2016 | Writing, zeitgeist
To my surprise, this blog is now 10 years old. We shouldn’t be surprised by the passing of time but we always are. It’ll be 11 years old next year, can you imagine? The surprise comes in a number of forms. It sounds a little odd that something as new and...
by Scott | May 18, 2016 | Writing
Almost 10 years ago I registered terraexitus.com and now I’m delighted to say that a very old idea has finally become a very new book. I had to get the domain first for reasons that will be obvious if you read the book. It hasn’t taken 10 years to write,...
by Scott | May 2, 2016 | Writing, zeitgeist
Radio is such a marvellously simply thing. You take an information signal, add it to a carrier signal that is capable of transmitting it over huge distances and build a receiver that can strip out the carrier signal leaving you with the original signal. With this...
by Scott | Feb 14, 2016 | Technology, Writing, zeitgeist
I am sitting looking out to sea. A bright day is starting to darken. A dark smudge joins the approaching cloud to the horizon. Rain is on the way, I need to head home. But I can’t. My car won’t start. It’s not broken, it has fuel. It is simply...
by Scott | May 27, 2015 | Writing, zeitgeist
Every now and then you have to stop and think. As you become fatigued by the annoying small-print of life, you have occasionally lift your head and see all the nice headlines. One of the headlines that it would be easy for me to miss is that I’ve known my best...
