This is the personal website for me, Neil McIntosh. You can find out more about me here. The views represented here are my own, not those of my employer.

I’ve been asked why the name “Completetosh” for the site. Well, I thought I needed something easier to spell than my name. “Tosh” was my nickname at school and University (and on the football pitch) so it seemed a reasonable place to start. And “complete” is because this was originally intended to be a place where I linked to all my written work. Complete works, if you like.

These days I write less, but I still like the name. It turns out “Tosh” - if Peter Ackroyd’s Sacred River is to believed - is derived from the term “toshers”. Toshers were watermen who dredged the River Thames for flotsam bobbing around in its murk.

Given I live in London, and cross the Thames twice a day, and that the purpose of any good blog is to dredge the depths for interesting things, I think the term Tosh is still entirely appropriate. And its use so obviously very layered in meaning.

Don’t expect such subtlety too often.

Technical and historical notes

Older readers will recall this site lived on Typepad between July 2003 and September 2007, although always at this domain. I elected to move it to WordPress in the name of a better design, and more flexibility in management. The current design is called Upstart Blogger Modicus, by the talented Robert Ellis.

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