A strange song about paperclips, and their role in the destruction of the world. Watch out...

Based on Nick Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment. This song contains the word "paperclips" 37 times.

Lyrics and Chords:

[G]
[F][C]
[G]
[F][D][Dsus4][D]

They [G]built a little company
To …

This doesn't entirely reflect my view. AI tools are, like all tools, just tools, and used wisely who knows what kind of wonders people will come up with in collaboration with them? Still, personally I'm much more keen on tools that make my life easier than tools for making my …

The Devil doesn't just go to Georgia looking for souls. No, he also needs software developers to help maintain his internal systems, and where's he going to find them?

(recording to come)

Lyrics and Chords:

[Em][D][G][Em]
[Am][B7]

The [Em]Devil took an [D]Uber to The …

I was at the railway station, buying a ticket from the machine, and I sort of absent-mindedly thanked it. While that is an odd thing to do, it did occur to me that if I'm nice to the machines, maybe they'll be kind to me and I'll survive longer when …

Don't pretend you always read them...

(recording to come)

Lyrics and Chords:

[A][Asus2][D][A]

[A]Welcome to our web site, there's [D]plenty to en[A]joy
[D]So much information and a [A]few cool [E]toys
[D]But when you use it you [A]have to …

I had half an hour to waste in Edinburgh and happened upon a retro gaming bar. So I spent the time playing some arcade classics. Typically very badly. Here's a song about one of them.

(recording to come)

Lyrics and Chords:

[C][F][C][F]
[C][F][G]

We [C …

In life, the reward for doing good work is more work. And usually, harder work. It's kind of similar in computer games. For example, the better Pac-man gets at escaping from the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, the harder the challenge gets...

You can skip the key change for …

Ah yes, the internet troll. Often depicted as a nerdy kid with no friends hiding in their bedroom. Well I was a nerdy introverted kid who always had trouble making friends and I never felt the need to yell at people on the internet. Not that twitter had been invented …

Ada Lovelace is widely regarded as the first computer programmer, writing a program for Charles Babbage's (unbuilt) Analytical Engine. More importantly, in my opinion, she was the first to recognise, as far back as 1843, that numbers could be used for more than calculation - that arranged the right way, they …