Chronos Veritas

I was born in 1965 on an island off the west coast of Scotland and grew up in a small town in the northeast. One summer my dad, a school teacher, brought home a Commodore PET. That was my start in computing. By the time I left for university, I was spending spare hours writing 6502 and 68000 assembly for fun.

I’ve worked in IT ever since. For years the internet was a useful place to learn from people with real, hands-on experience, and most of what you read could be trusted. If you couldn’t find an answer, it usually meant no one had written it down yet.

I used to find solid answers online — careful work by people who knew their subject. Now it’s mostly noise: lies, opinion dressed as fact, and confident claims with nothing behind them. The web is more open than ever, but there’s no real way to validate or prioritise truth, respect, honesty, accuracy, or effort. What matters is still there; it’s just harder to reach.

This is a place to collect some ideas and thoughts, including articles mainly about my home city for now. It isn’t a brand or a campaign, and it doesn’t promise final answers. I’ll try to write plainly, with enough detail to check a claim when that’s possible.

Comments are on. Disagreement is fine; abuse isn’t. I’ll moderate for civility and basic honesty.

“As we have seen again and again throughout history, in a completely free information fight, truth tends to lose.
To tilt the balance in favour of truth, networks must develop and maintain strong self-correcting mechanisms that reward truth telling.”

Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus