David Coveney

A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics

Tag: alone

  • Recovering from a heart bypass. The physical and mental challenges.

    Having a coronary artery bypass isn’t much fun and comes with challenges. Four years later I thought I’d describe some more of my experiences.

  • Steps and missteps on my path out of poverty

    Steps and missteps on my path out of poverty

    At 18 I was skint and got made homeless. It took a lot of graft, patience and mistakes to get out of that and into a moderate middle class lifestyle. Here’s how.

  • Why political parties lose support by winning.

    Why political parties lose support by winning.

    People do like to look back angrily, don’t they? Yet many a time, their anger today doesn’t reflect how they really felt back then. If you look at the Iraq War, and the UK’s involvement in it, most people supported the action. For sure, an awful lot of people today don’t think it was right…

  • Staleys in the Isle of Man

    Staleys in the Isle of Man

    One of the funny things about children and their memories is just how fallible they are. Full of false memories and forgotten realities. I lived, for a while, somewhere on the outskirts of Douglas on the Isle of Man, when I was about nine years old. The family I stayed in had a boy about…

  • Twitter is about to die. Here’s why.

    Twitter is about to die. Here’s why.

    Something odd has started to happen on Twitter for me, and it’s cutting my usage of it down quite dramatically. Why? It’s because it seems the spammers are winning… https://twitter.com/nrhansonp/status/318959016602660864 https://twitter.com/fierofan11q/status/318758157247709184 https://twitter.com/DavidThiebaudc/status/318665593605738497 https://twitter.com/catazettler3/status/318327663506890752 https://twitter.com/clintonxbaurer/status/318093880182591488 Every. Single. Day. I get lots of these. Some disappear into the ether, others remain on the Interactions tab on Twitter….

  • San Pedro de Atacama revisited.

    I remember San Pedro as being quite sleepy, with little accommodation available, but also with plenty of tourists and bars. It was sunny, warm, and pleasant. This time around it’s somewhat less sleepy, a lot bigger (perhaps 2x? 3x?)…however, it’s the off-season and that means few tourists compared to the number of restaurants, so dining…

  • The Story of Juanito

    The Story of Juanito

    Here’s something… a smiling, happy and charming man who knew my father in Arica, lives just around the corner from the hotel I’m staying at. He actually lives in the cabin that guards a car park.  Just him.  He’s been married twice, I believe, but that’s all I know. So how can I tell his…

  • WordPress Performance, Make it 3x Quicker!

    I’d started to notice that my site could often be slow to load – other sites on the same server weren’t suffering the same way, so I wanted to document a simple way in which one can identify performance issues on the site. This is one of them.