I use digital publishing skills to share stories and ideas as widely and efficiently as possible.I’m experienced in digital content management, including creation and distribution of ebooks, audiobooks and book metadata. I’ve also worked as an SEO and Digital Marketing Consultant.
I have a keen interest in the intersection of digital technology with culture. I’m both a book geek and a computer geek! I started off programming in BASIC on my dad’s Amstrad PCW 9512. I’ve dabbled in coding and other computer related geekery ever since then, from dual-booting Linux and Windows to rooting my Android and building my own websites. This current site is a custom-built WordPress theme I created, and I’m working my way through the Rails Tutorial as part of my quest to continually upgrade my digital skills.
In the run up to Christmas, I’d been admiring the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Google Nexus 7 and, of course, the iPad mini. I wistfully played with them in-store, trying to find a reason to justify the purchase. I couldn’t really afford or justify it out of my spare income, so I wasn’t expecting to […]
Right now, I’m in the thick of an exciting work placement with the Welsh publishing house Seren. Over eight weeks, I’m working as a Digital Assistant, getting them set up in the brave new world of ebook publishing. As both a book and technology geek, it’s a great job for me to tackle. Seren have […]
By any human measure, Steve Jobs’ life was an incredible success. Co-founder of Apple, former owner of Pixar, a visionary who transformed computing, the music industry, mobile phones and much more. And then he died, aged only 56. Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and his death at such a relatively early age is deeply […]
My mobile phone contract recently came to an end. I’d been paying £8.50 per month to Virgin Mobile for 100 minutes and 100 texts. I sometimes used up all my minutes, but almost never that many texts. I really fancied getting some kind of smart phone, and since my mp3 player was literally being held […]
My friend Jason is a very talented cartoonist, and I’ve been excited by his Jesus Comic project since he gave me a sneak preview. But it has now hit the iPhone for the world at large to download and enjoy! Now as much as I’d like one, I can’t really justify the expense of an […]
Today I start work as a Clerical Assistant, which while not terribly glamorous, is something of a step up from dishing out popcorn at a cinema. Working at the cinema was a useful stop-gap, but the varying shifts, late nights, anti-social working habits, hours spent on your feet and minimum wage pay were all downsides […]
There’s an interesting article on The Guardian website about Facebook, in particular the people who run it, and their ideology that drives it. It makes for interesting reading. Talking about Peter Thiel, one of the three board members of Facebook, who is a 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher, it says: His philosophy, […]
There’s a good article on Boundless about “unplugging the God of Information Technology“. As someone who compulsively checks their email and Facebook throughout the day, Joe Carter’s observations on the all-pervading place we give technology in our lives struck home with me. Recently, God has really been hitting home to me the importance of rest. […]
…or at least, I’m going to remove and hide my computer’s wifi card so that I can no longer be distracted from my work by the Internet (in particular, Facebook, Outpost Gallifrey and Ship of Fools). I’ve got a lot to do on my dissertation on Christian literary criticism by two weeks tomorrow, as well […]
There’s now less than a week to go, and I’m very busy getting ready for university. Right at this moment, I’m doing a more trivial task: using Windows Media Player to copy my Doctor Who audio dramas from CD onto my laptop in a compressed format. This is to avoid lugging a big pile of […]
