Of late Nick Routledge helped kick off the Global Information Infrastructure Awards (corporate launch sponsors included: AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Lotus Development, Price Waterhouse, IBM, Fujitsu, BBN, BellSouth, Netscape Communications, CompuServe and the United States Postal Service); the National Computer Ethics & Responsibilities Campaign (launch sponsors included Merill Lynch, Monsanto, Symantec, Software Creations, Atterbury Foundation, Boston Computer Society, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, CompuServe, National Computer Security Association, BSA, SPA, Computing Technology Industry Association, EPIC, Ziff-Davis and the Computer Ethics Institute); conceived and placed the website for the Save the Earth Artrock Auction; conceived and curates World 3, and has managed The Craft for Netscape/Chris Tacy's web developer newsletter Off The Net.

Web-related articles include Barking Up The Wrong Hierachy, a take on hypermedia design as it relates to the practice of business; State of Cyberspace, January 1st, 1996, a spilling of the beans as we entered the year; and Web Economics, aka why the Web and the profit motive ain't wholly analagous.

Recent muses include: Akhenaton, Mozart, The Necks, KCRW,The Blue Nile, Jarrett's The Paris Concert, Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder "language was merely a difference, not a barrier", Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Babble, Massive Attack, Nick Drake, Henryk Gorecki, U. Srinivas and Michael Brook, Black Grape, Huun-Huur-Tu's Orphan's Lament, Nusrat the permanent play, Dragmules, Les Negresses Vertes, Underworld, loadsa contemporary Irish stuff - always Sinead, Luka B., Moving Hearts, and the fat lady sings ("Ireland's finest band" - NME), Sixteen Horsepower, Khaled, norf Injun Raga types, Dead Can Dance, Mathieu, Cesaria Evoria, Van the Man, Bayete and Jabu Khanyile, Sheila Chandra, Papa Wemba, Geoffrey Oryema, Polly Jean, Koto, Christopher Parkening and Pete Seeger's covers of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Du Min-xi and Xia Yao's Music for Flute and Harp, Torrega's Capricho Arabe, Pavarotti the lads and the Hand of Eno, sung Masses and all sortsa choral stuff espec. Chorovaya Akademia, Tom Waits, The Event Horizon, Tulku, a Julian Cope, Sade, Joni Mitchell, Crowded House, Angelique Kidjo, Seal (inc. lyrics and liner notes), Ani DiFranco, Bonepony, Paolo Conte, Radiohead, bel canto, Cure, Siouxsie, early Cure. Midori at the Music Center, LA, April 13th, 1996. Diane Geysbers. Linda's trust. Alix. Lilly, Rebecca and Max. Nik. abbot's 'abit's art. The Frenchie down the hall ("your 'orrible eenglish music") Jay David Bolter. Akhenaton, Rumi, Thomas Jefferson, Rilke, Kabir, Whyte, Attar, Sanai, Hafiz, Blake, Emerson, Huang-Po, the M., J. and B team, H.H. the D.L. and his side espec. the Mad Beggar, Black Elk, a list, the Tzu crew, Dattatreya and the Sanskrit crowds, Lovelock, Danny's faves, Plotinus, Sura 18, Eckhart, Ghandi, Oscar Arias Sanchez, V. Havel, David Hume, rogue Jesuits and Dominicans, A. Lu, The Sufis, all Songsters unheard, the entire mod squad - women and men. Isis. Rothko at the Tate. Monty P. The Angels. Hip M.D.s. Of late, the Muse, Fukuoka, Steiner, the brothers Berry, KVRM, Sam Bonds, the heart-softening sounds of Orygun. The credo?

Go Dragmules!

'Never picked up his degree. The last time he kicked himself he was corporeally located somewhere Stateside, walkin 'n talkin, talkin and walkin. Peace, peace, peace.