Alan D.

I'm a former newspaper journalist, columnist, book editor (focusing primarily on social history and natural history) and magazine editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. I was founding editor and publisher of Popular Mechanics, South Africa's biggest sci-tech title, and took responsibility for everything from marketing, PR and TV commercials to reader events, conferences and competitions. I currently write on subjects varying from personal finance to science, technology, travel, humour... in fact, anything. I also take my own photographs. Please Google my name, and if the first person to come up is a good-looking Irish actor, be aware that it's not me.