Last year I went searching for a new web hosting provider. My criteria was very specific and in fact I only found one company in a position to fulfil it…

The History and Future of Everything is a beautiful infographic movie showing the increasingly vast timescales of Big History. The work is a collaboration between the blog WaitButWhy and the information…

There’s a long tradition with online journals (I’ve never really liked the term “blogging”) of reflecting on the old year before starting fresh with the new. So as it’s new…

Although The Computus Engine launched back in January 2008, I’ve been writing on the web since 2000. Back then I had a site called crashposition.com and each post was basically…

The Computus Engine is moving to a new hosting company over the Christmas holiday. If you’re reading this then we’re up and running again on GreenQloud. Please excuse the mess…

I gave a talk last Thursday at Worthing Digital entitled ‘Fast Slim Correct: The Evolution of JavaScript’. The story I wanted to tell was how a simple web scripting language has broken…

All of my websites have been hosted in the US, since moving to Media Temple back in April 2001. When The Computus Engine launched in 2008 it went straight to MT…

In 2011 the historian David Christian gave a talk at TED in California. His subject was “Big History“, the cross-discipline study of history he began teaching in Australia in the early…