Apropriate Technology

I used to have a wireless doorbell. The button and the sounder were'nt physically connected. If it stopped working, you had to try to work out whether the battery had run out in the button or the sounder. Recently, it stopped working. I tried to change the battery in the button. It was an unusually small type of battery, and fiddly to change. Afterwards, I found it impossible to put the faceplate back on the button - eventually, one of the little plastic lugs that was supposed to hold it together snapped. So I got this instead.

Why have something that needs batteries and can go wrong, when you can have something that doesn't need batteries and can't go wrong?

And thus it begins...

Hello everybody!

Let's start with a few things about myself. I'm 36, a practicing Roman Catholic, English, married for 12 years with two children. I work for the BBC as a Research Engineer, a job that has the advantage of letting me go round calling myself an inventor. I have a variety of geeky interests, including Doctor Who, Progressive Rock, and conlanging (creating fictional languages). I've been working, on and off, on a fantasy book for a few years. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever finish it.

I've just started a new project at work, for which I thought it might be useful to have a blog. I'm not actually going to talk about work that much, more about my interests in general.

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll be able to think of something to actually write about soon.