Ross Poulton

In September-October last year, we undertook a 1500km road trip in our new Polestar 2 (Long Range).

As I’ve done in the past (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) I have put together a rear-view-mirror view on my year in running. 2025 was my quietest running year in the decade I've been running.

Last week I was listening to Ben Lee and Ione Skye's podcast, Weirder Together.

This sounds obvious, but when we get stuck in the daily grind it's easy to forget.

For my entire career, I’ve been using Windows laptops in a professional context.

This isn't a movie I thought I was going to love, but I do - both because it's funny but also a great documentary with beautiful bird footage and some great characters.

I’ve recently been doing by some minor declutterring of my vinyl collection, hoping to sell some records on Discogs.

Let's get something out of the way first: Our planet is burning, driven especially hard by our reliance on fossil fuels.

On Thursday 20th March 2003, for reasons that have been lost to the sands of time, I registered the domain rossp.org and started to build a new personal website for myself.

We listen to a fair bit of music in our household.

As I’ve done in the past (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) I have put together a rear-vision-mirror view on my year in running.

The time has come for me to shut down Djangosites.org.

In the past couple of years I’ve made a conscious effort to read more books and it’s been rewarding.

As I've done in the past (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) I have put together a rear-vision-mirror view on my year in running.

As I've done in the past few years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) I have put together a rear-vision-mirror view on my year in running.

Because us consultants are often bought in as experts in our field, it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming we know early what solution we will be putting in place for a client.

If you’re going to help a client solve a problem, it’s not enough to be curious.

There are many attributes that make good consultants good, but one of my favourites is curiosity.

One of the unexpected joys of these Covid-induced lockdowns has been sitting down with my family each weekend to do The Saturday Quiz.

As I’ve done in the past few years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) I have put together a rear-vision-mirror view on my year in running.

UPDATED MAY 2023 The code in this post is no longer usable, as we no longer personally use Amber and their API has since changed.

From Outside Magazine, Why Are Runners Obsessed with the Pain Cave?

As I’ve done in the past few years (2016, 2017, 2018) I have put together a rear-vision-mirror view on my year in running.

This morning I wrote up a little series of tweets about volunteering my time to read at my 8-year-old son's school class.

Just about every endurance runner has, at some time or another, been informed by a colleague that said colleague "doesn't even like to drive 30 kilometres, let alone run that far!"

"Who is running the 45km course tomorrow?"

The first race I had on my 2019 running calendar was the Two Bays Trail Race, a 56km ultramarathon across the Mornington Peninsula in the peak of the Melbourne summer.

As far as running goes, 2018 was my biggest and best year yet.

As the hot water hit my sweaty and salt-crusted hair, I started sobbing.

To reduce the number of VMs I pay for each month I've shifted this blog over to Netlify, powered by Pelican and Netlify CMS.

As is now customary, I'm reviewing last year by waiting until I'm a third of the way through this year.

During World War II, a Pan Am flying boat found itself stranded in Auckland, New Zealand, unable to return to San Francisco due to Pearl Harbour's bombing turning the Pacific into a theatre of war.

#2016 in running bibs and bling.

Why I Hate Running by Brendan Leonard at Semi-Rad.com: I hate running, three to four times a week if I have time.

Since starting to run a few years ago, nearly all of my mileage has been on paved roads.

It doesn't seem that long ago that I wrote up my 2014 list - but it's obviously far enough in the past that I don't really remember what I was trying to achieve this year, but it's worth a review - even if we are already six weeks into the new year …

Half Marathon is a pretty stupid name for an event.

This afternoon I tidied up my Dropbox account a little bit - I removed a folder with 80gb of photos I no longer needed stored there (they're backed up in a few other locations) and disconnected some old computers and phones that should no longer have acce…

From Episode 28 of the Song Exploder podcast - The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters: On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart while reentering the earth’s atmosphere.

I've been using the Moves app for a little while to have a bit of fun with recording where I visit, when, and how I get around.

The New York Times, on The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk: A new study finds that even gentle lunchtime strolls can perceptibly — and immediately — buoy people’s moods and ability to handle stress at work. [...]

For quite a while I've had a public "Status" page online for WhisperGifts via Pingdom.

I like to listen to podcasts.

What a year 2014 was.

David Cramer, in Be a Problem Solver For me the best thing that happened to our generation was Google.

I love listening to Serial, the podcast you've already heard about where This American Life journalist Sarah Koenig revisits the 15-year-old murder case of Hae Min Lee, uncovering details week by week.

Evan Miller, writing in Please Offer An Excel Export Option: Data is ultimately meant to be consumed by people.

Kano: Kano is a computer you build and code yourself.

In the past couple of months I've done some fun and interesting stuff over at WhisperGifts, my side project that lets couples put their bridal gift registry online.

I'm a tall guy.