Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

I don't do flash fiction.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.