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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.

Another Year Gone By

Written on Wednesday 31 Dec 2014

Lights flicker and fade, drawing the year to a close. Outside, the weather is warming and slowly burning the frost away; a tiny ripple before the wave of heat to come, before it is summer again. 2014 has been a year of travel, with three trips abroad setting a new...

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Faded Dreams in Winter

Written on Tuesday 23 Dec 2014

Like many, I came of age with a head full of dreams about what my adult life would be like. I thought maybe I’d live in a big old cottage, raise my children in a little village by the sea, have a wood fire burning through the winter and I’d...

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All I Want for Christmas

Written on Monday 15 Dec 2014

As December gets into full swing, one of the joyous seasonal activities that must be undertaken is the ritual filling of my Amazon wishlist with a bunch of crap I don’t need. This is all to help those stubborn relatives who can’t bring themselves to believe I’m telling the truth...

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Touchdown, Half a Billion Miles Away

Written on Wednesday 12 Nov 2014

On March 2nd 2004, without great fanfare, an Ariane 5 rocket blasted off into orbit carrying a payload designed by the European Space Agency to investigate a nearby comet. Its name was Rosetta, and it set off on one of the most complex gravitational trick-shots we have ever attempted. Ten...

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Gathering Dusk

Written on Friday 31 Oct 2014

Dusk falls across Dorset, darkening the fields from Christchurch in the east, past me, way past me out to Lyme Regis in the west. My week is done, and with it October, and with it the harvest and the last of the warmth that summer left behind. The night will...

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On GamerGate

Written on Saturday 18 Oct 2014

Dear GamerGate supporters, trolls, flamers and everyone associated: Here is a pale blue dot. Really, it’s the pale blue dot. To abuse the words of Carl Sagan: That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. That’s you, everyone you have ever loved, and everyone you’ve ever hated. It’s every videogame player, creator...

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Ooh arr, Oi be Resolvin' ee's Grammatical Failin's

Written on Saturday 27 Sep 2014

Part 1. US Edition vosotros. vous. ihr. The more languages I learn, the more it stands out that English has no second-person plural, no way of saying “you” and explicitly meaning more than one person. That is, of course, except for “y’all”, a term that I’ve found myself using more...

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Adventures in Emoji

Written on Monday 22 Sep 2014

Yesterday, a friend of mine started me on a quest that was to be filled with despair. It started innocently enough. I've just had a thought that blew my mind: Emoji fonts in roguelikes. This.. Changes.. EVERYTHING!— A powerful cabbit (@Eldritchreality) September 21, 2014 I gleefully replied with my 140...

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SuccessWhale 3.0 Released

Written on Friday 30 May 2014

It turns out that my previous post about SuccessWhale, bemoaning how it had stagnated and become more trouble than it was worth, was just enough venting to kick me up the arse and get me going again. And so, not long later, I am proud to announce the release of...

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To Those who Fear Immigration

Written on Friday 30 May 2014

Last week’s European parliament elections saw big gains for right-wing parties across the continent, many trading on policies opposing immigration and the European Union itself. I worry for those of you that cast your vote against immigration regardless of the other policies of the party you voted for. I worry...

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