Author: Alastair Johnston (149)

Un-optimising Dog Walks

I was enjoying the sunshine and taking my hounds for their lunchtime walk. One of them did what all dogs (and humans) need to do,...

Loving a Cold Misty Morning

There's something to be said for owning a dog. The need to go out every day with your four-legged friend, come rain or shine, hot...

Stevie Nicks Still Rocks

Attached to my door was a black and white picture of a blonde woman in full song. The ragged edge down the long side betrayed...

My AI Declaration

My work is made by a human for humans. Nothing on my website, none of the text or images have been created or developed using...

A Last Blue Hurrah

I thought that I had missed them. For the first time in many, many years. I’d been distracted, pulled away by the human world. A...

A Better Way to Take Searchable Notes

I needed to have a better way to retrieve useful information from my handwritten scrawls. A way that I could sit in a meeting, writing...

New Escapologist - Magazine Review

Robert Wringham is on to something. A few months ago he re-started a magazine, in paper form, via a Kickstarter. I decided to back it,...

Spined Calendar: The Alastair Method

How can you fit a number of months into a two-page calendar spread whilst still keeping things legible? Although I use a variety of future...

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