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About M. G. Judge / Bill Rectangle
M. G. Judge
writes under the pen name Bill Rectangle.
Originally from Edinburgh and now
based in West Lothian, Scotland, he has worked professionally in IT and
technology for more than thirty years.
His education and professional
development have included computing and Computer Support/IT through NC,
HNC and HND study, followed by professional technology qualifications
and continued learning throughout his career.
He remains a full-time IT professional
and is continuing further professional development, including
approximately eighteen months of part-time cyber-security study and
training.
His first independently authored and
self-published memoir, STENHOUSE: Growing Up in Edinburgh and
Beyond, preserves his memories of growing up in Stenhouse and
wider Edinburgh during the 1980s and early 1990s.
He also personally narrated the
complete audiobook.
STENHOUSE was developed entirely in
his personal time, outside his Monday–Friday, 9–5 professional
IT role, with professional responsibilities and personal and
family commitments taking priority.
His lived experience remains the
single source of truth behind the memoir.
The project deliberately used AI in an
unusual direction: rather than asking technology to invent a synthetic
story, AI was tested as a means of helping organise, research, explore
and present an existing authentic human story while the author remained
the authority over it.
His published position is that AI
should be an enabling tool rather than a substitute for human
responsibility, with the human remaining the controlling mind and
retaining design authority.
He supports responsible AI policy
covering accountability, privacy, security, accuracy, bias,
transparency, ownership, intellectual-property protection, consent,
attribution and meaningful human oversight.
The Bill Rectangle name originated
roughly nineteen years ago as an automated avatar created for a family
internet-radio project. The system could convert incoming listener
emails into speech during automated broadcasts.
“Michael submitted the
names Bill Rectangle and Mike Judge through NASA/JPL’s Mars Science
Laboratory ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ programme on 21 June 2010. His
original participation certificates record Bill Rectangle as
N2M400803203 and Mike Judge as N2M400803204, and state that the names
would be carried to Mars on a microchip aboard the rover.”
I have now located my original 2010
NASA participation certificates in an old Facebook archive. They confirm
that the Bill Rectangle name was submitted through NASA/JPL’s Mars
Science Laboratory “Send Your Name to Mars” programme, rather than the
Dawn asteroid-belt programme referenced in my earlier article.
The original certificates show:
• Bill Rectangle — Certificate
N2M400803203
• Mike Judge — Certificate N2M400803204
• Date: 21 June 2010
Both certificates state that the names
would be carried to Mars on a microchip aboard NASA’s Mars Science
Laboratory rover.
I have attached clean crops made
directly from the original screenshots. These are non-generative crops
of the original evidence — the surrounding Facebook/browser interface
has simply been removed for clarity.
Years later, Bill Rectangle became his
author pen name.
Away from writing and professional
technology, his interests include football, music, skating,
skateboarding, skiing, snowboarding, surfing and the
cultural and technological history of the period he grew up in.
STENHOUSE has since developed into a
wider ecosystem spanning print, ebook, audiobook, digital publishing,
interviews, articles, audience engagement, historical-memory work,
frontier-AI experimentation and early research into possible future
adaptations.
Book One has therefore served both as
a finished memoir in its own right and as an opportunity to understand
the audiences, communities and themes with which the work connects most
strongly.
The response from local friends and
family, wider readers, authors, interviewers, publishers and others
around the project has been exceptionally welcoming and encouraging.
Future possibilities include a
continuation of the memoir, further writing around technology and
cultural memory, and the early-stage research concept for an interactive
STENHOUSE-inspired game currently carrying the working title My
Bit / Ma Bit.
The title deliberately connects the
Scottish idea of somebody’s “bit” — their home, place or area —
with the computing meaning of a bit as a fundamental unit of digital
information.
The game remains solely at the idea
and research stage, including investigation into what modern AI-assisted
tools could realistically enable.
These future ideas remain deliberately
flexible rather than forming a rigid production schedule, allowing his
professional IT career, ongoing cyber-security development and family
commitments to continue taking priority.
STENHOUSE and Project Links
STENHOUSE: Growing Up in
Edinburgh and Beyond
Author: Bill Rectangle
Publisher: White Hat Media
Formats: Paperback, Kindle and author-narrated audiobook
Official website:
https://www.whitehatmedia.org/
Paperback:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5WY8CGY
Kindle:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H5KWPX2F
Audiobook:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8ZV8JZG/
Independent STENHOUSE AI Project Paper
/ White Paper
STENHOUSE — A Real-World
Benchmark of Publicly Available Frontier AI and Agentic Technology
From Human Memory as a Single
Source of Truth to a Finished Publishing Ecosystem and Real-World
Audience Engagement.
Independently published by M. G. Judge
/ White Hat Media, October 2026.
https://stenhouse-frontier-ai-project-paper.michael-judge-mcp.chatgpt.site
The paper is an independently
published observational project account and case study. It is not
presented as a peer-reviewed academic paper or controlled scientific
model evaluation.
Selected Published Interviews and
External Features
The Book Hook Online — Bill
Rectangle / M. G. Judge interview
Includes the detailed discussion of professional IT, AI methodology,
human design authority, responsible governance, creative ownership and
future technology.
https://thebookhook.online/author-interviews/bill-rectangle/
Cultura — Growing Up in
Stenhouse: An Edinburgh Childhood from the Analogue Age to the Digital
Era
A cultural and social-history perspective on Stenhouse, Edinburgh,
community, childhood and technological change.
https://cultura.me.uk/2026/09/22/growing-up-in-stenhouse-an-edinburgh-childhood-from-the-analogue-age-to-the-digital-era/
Brindle Books — Interview with
Michael Judge / Bill Rectangle
Covers STENHOUSE, Edinburgh memories, the Bill Rectangle pen name and
the route from a long professional IT career into independently writing
a memoir.
https://www.brindlebooks.co.uk/2026/09/brindle-books-interview-with-michael.html
My Random Musings — The Author
Interview Featuring Bill Rectangle
Background on Edinburgh, IT and technology, learning, hobbies, writing
STENHOUSE and narrating the audiobook.
https://www.myrandommusings.co.uk/2026/09/the-author-interview-featuring-bill-rectangle/
The 90s Rewind Report —
STENHOUSE: Growing Up in Edinburgh & Beyond
Long-form audio conversation about STENHOUSE, adolescence, Edinburgh,
memories, music and popular culture around the late 1980s and early
1990s.
https://the90srewindreport.podbean.com/e/s03e23-stenhouse-growing-up-in-edinburgh-beyond-interview/
The Living Memory Project —
Michael Judge / STENHOUSE
A lived-memory and social-history feature concerned with preserving
ordinary people, neighbourhoods, families, communities and personal
experience.
https://livingmemory.live/story/michaeljudge/
Image captions / editorial notes
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STENHOUSE_Front_Cover.jpg
— STENHOUSE: Growing Up in Edinburgh and Beyond by Bill
Rectangle. Credit: M. G. Judge / White Hat Media.
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Michael_Judge_Holding_STENHOUSE.jpeg
— M. G. Judge / Bill Rectangle holding a copy of STENHOUSE.
Credit: M. G. Judge / White Hat Media.
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Stenhouse_Dropping_Dad_Off.jpeg —
Contemporary photograph taken while dropping Michael’s dad off in
Stenhouse. Credit: M. G. Judge / White Hat Media.
These supplied images are authorised
for STENHOUSE editorial context. Please preserve truthful captions and
do not imply third-party endorsement.
Kind Regards,
M. G. Judge
Author of STENHOUSE
Pen Name: Bill Rectangle
White Hat Media – Official Publisher of STENHOUSE
Email: info@whitehatmedia.org
Website:
https://www.whitehatmedia.org/
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