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An update from day 68 in hospital...
15 October 2026
A further health update...
7 September 2026
What's that sound?
6 September 2026
Feed, Infection Control, Fluid Overload
17 August 2026
Admission, meds, vascular access...
11 August 2026
The extended interviews on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
2 August 2026
The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan)
19 April 2026
Thinking About Dogs
17 April 2026
It's been ten years...
23 January 2026
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
2 January 2026
2,000 Christmas trees sold by the 14th December
21 December 2025
My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup
16 December 2025
My academic year in review
13 December 2024
Why it's worth avoiding as many viruses/common colds as possible: mine led to permanent disability
7 October 2024
Rollercoaster days
12 September 2024
How long have I got, doc?
14 June 2024
Betting against the future
21 February 2024
On Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Things Most People Don't Know About It
14 January 2024
A year of looking in on academia
13 December 2023
My 2023 year in review
11 December 2023
Points mean prizes
8 September 2023
New wheels
6 September 2023
Sunsetting martineve.com
24 July 2023
On pain and subjectivity
7 May 2023
My 2022 year in review
4 December 2022
Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
26 August 2022
A glimmer of hope
1 August 2022
Input-Output
3 January 2022
Aiming for downtime
2 January 2022
Last year I spent 506 hours answering emails. How I hope to do less of it this year.
1 January 2022
On life, death, dignity, and Dignitas
11 December 2021
My 2021 year in review
9 December 2021
All ten of my books now are (or will be when published) open access
4 December 2021
How much optimism?
18 January 2021
Attempted realistic observations on 2021
7 January 2021
Resolutions, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Parts of Academia
29 December 2020
My 2020 year in review
16 December 2020
Academic books I'm writing
29 March 2020
My 2019 in review
14 December 2019
I have won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize
14 October 2019
Immunity problems
4 October 2019
From Mars and Back to Close Reading with Computers
11 June 2019
How do you describe this kind of illness?
28 May 2019
On music, life, Tici Taci, and a new release
29 March 2019
My 2018 in review
14 December 2018
My 2017 academic year in review
15 December 2017
My autoimmune diseases are attacking my ears and I am losing my hearing
20 November 2017
My 2016 academic year in review
16 December 2016
I have suffered from an episode of cerebral vasculitis and a stroke
28 March 2016
On ten years of chronic illness
13 February 2016
Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
12 February 2016
My 2015 academic year in review
17 December 2015
Moving to Birkbeck
1 May 2015
My 2014 round-up
16 December 2014
A consumerist rant: what's wrong with banks
26 November 2014
Current working music
23 November 2014
My 2013 academic year in review
29 December 2013
Ethics
7 July 2013
Moving on from Sussex and joining the University of Lincoln
30 November 2012
The Viva
11 September 2012
By the time you read this, I will be...
10 September 2012
Post-Submission Weirdness
20 July 2012
Submitted my Ph.D! (in memory of my grandfather, John Gray [10/02/1920 - 14/06/2012])
28 June 2012
New York Times writes about my Ph.D. thesis work!
5 April 2012
Jake Wilson: "All's Well". Website and Music up!
10 March 2012
First draft of my Ph.D is done!
27 January 2012
2012: Year of the PhD Completion / Guardian Higher Education Top 10 posts of 2011
30 December 2011
**Support War Child** and see Laurent Gardner/Booka Shade/Leftfield live April 2012
7 December 2011
A Thomas Pynchon tattoo recruit
6 July 2011
More Pynchonalia
13 June 2011
Photograph and Interview in the Guardian
16 May 2011
My AHEA success featured in RUSTLE
28 April 2011
Exactly half-way through my PhD timetable
3 April 2011
The Gaz Pearce Award
11 March 2011
SSL Enabled
27 January 2011
BBC News: fathoming financial terms
15 January 2011
My navy days with Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
22 June 2010
British Library usage made clear
16 March 2010