Hi, I’m Graeme, and this is my website. In this social media age it’s a bit of an anachronism, and truth be told updates to the main domain are rare. But what it lacks in frequency it makes up for in longevity, with about fifteen years of content that I’m too much of a digital hoarder to let go of…

Professionally and recreationally, I’m interested in rules-based systems which are complex in the sense that the overall behaviour of the system isn’t obvious even if you understand all the building blocks (and even that could be tricky). Some examples I’ve dabbled with over the years: pure mathematics; frequent flyer schemes; programming languages; board games; cryptography. My favourite problems have an optimisation / constraint satisfaction flavour or a graph-theoretic structure; it follows that my very favourite problems involve constraints on graphs, and I spent about five years thinking about a particular one.

I’ve spent a similar amount of time in the aviation industry, and have picked up some avgeek tendencies along the way. For me, travel is as much about the journey as the destination, and I’m always looking for an unusual hook to justify a trip. I take far too many photos whilst I’m away, and write far too many words once I’m back – you can find both on this subsite.

However, despite these primary focuses it remains most likely that if you’ve arrived at this site, it’s instead because of a short experiment in slow motion video; my 15 minutes of viral fame!

This is the ‘COVID furlough’ edition of the welcome page; for a sitemap of sorts, you could try the previous edition from 2014…