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Sun’s out, so in to the water.
IA Music Club Albums of the Year
The Most Prestigious Music Award In The Whole Of Internal Audit… 
 2025 
 Dave 
 Sharon Van Etten And The Attachment Theory by Sharon Van Etten 
 I have had this on regular play since it came out, really strong album and think it’s my favourite one of the year. 
 All That Is Over by Sprints 
 Love sprints, at first didn’t think this was that great but has grown on me…
Writing Great Risks & Controls

 
 What Is This? 
 ‘Writing Great Risks and Controls’ is a project that I did to support my team at work. It’s an informal guide to how to write risks and controls if you are an internal auditor (or similar, although YMMV if your role is different). It started out as a small set of bullets that became a presentation and then morphed into a comic book as I realised…
Reading List: The Best Sci-Fi Short Stories
This is a list of the ‘best’ short science-fiction stories according to a long thread on Reddit (I may not have captured some if I had already read them or just didn’t fancy them when I read the description). I’m slowly working through the list in no particular order. Presented here as both a record of progress but also in case anyone else is interested in doing a similar…
Book List
This is the list of what books I’ve read over the last few years. 
 2025 
 Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel 
 ★★★★★ 
I’m wary of historical fiction - it can often feel like an exercise in showing how much research the author did - but the Wolf Hall series has such a sense of authenticity and depth in every page. Am really looking forward to the final installment…
Kobo Reading Stats Visualisation
I read almost exclusively on my Kobo e-reader. The reader captures some stats about your reading progress, but they don’t really tell you about your reading as a whole. However, the databases that the kobo uses to track progress are accessible when you plug the device into a computer (they’re just in a hidden folder). 
 Out of curiousity, I built a simple script and web app that…
Project GreyBox

 Project GreyBox is a small, dedicated hardware device that supports an elderly person in living independently, reducing the need for daily reminders and reassurance from relatives. 
 The system consists of: 
 
 A simple, always-on physical device with a touchscreen display. The display shows the current date and day of week, the weather (which automatically refreshes every half…
2025-12-30
Goodbye 2025.
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Extraordinary Claims

 “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” 

Life Goes On

 Oh yeah, life goes on 
Long after the thrill of living is gone… 
 
 John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp, ‘Jack & Diane’ 
 

2025-10-16
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney

 Masons, when they start upon a building, 
Are careful to test out the scaffolding; 
 Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, 
Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. 
 And yet, all this comes down when the job’s done, 
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone, 
 So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be 
Old bridges breaking between you and me, 
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