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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.

Cultural Travesty Pizza

Written on Friday 20 May 2011

Over the past couple of hours, I’ve been encouraging the people of Twitter and Facebook to help me create the world’s greatest culinary cultural travesty. Starting with a pizza base, as probably the easiest thing to hold all the other stuff, I intend to pick one of the suggested foodstuffs...

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The UI of Least Resistance

Written on Tuesday 17 May 2011

I was working up to a blog post on Ubuntu’s new “Unity” interface a couple of days ago, but repeatedly stalled when it came to making a point. The only point I could come up with was essentially just “I don’t like this”, which isn’t the greatest of subjects for...

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Promises Fallen by the Wayside

Written on Friday 6 May 2011

Nearly six months ago, I sketched out some ideas for a site then called “healthi.ly”, since renamed to Daily Promise. In time I coded it up, made it public, and made the same commitment I have to other sites in the past – 20 active users gets it its own...

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On Game Design: DJ Rivals

Written on Friday 6 May 2011

There’s a formula common to many of today’s popular “casual” games. If you’ve played a bunch of Facebook games recently, you’ll probably recognise it. It goes a bit like this: You have a pool called something like “Stamina” or “Action Points”, which refills slowly in real-time. Once you’re out of...

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An Ending in Darkness

Written on Friday 29 Apr 2011

I lie unmoving on the floor of the bedroom, stretching my back into shape as I listen to the splattering of raindrops against the window. A cold north wind blows them on, a rare wind in these parts. So rare is this wind, and so sheltered is our flat from...

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Summer Calling

Written on Saturday 23 Apr 2011

It is past midnight here, and a warm onshore breeze is just beginning to slacken. I stand barefoot between the blinking lights of the town and the endless beaches that sweep up the sea, whole again. There’s sand in my shoes, sand in my bag and sand strewn across the...

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Why I'm Voting "Yes" to AV

Written on Wednesday 20 Apr 2011

A while ago, I blogged my indifference to the Alternative Vote system, and politics in general at that point, in a post entitled “Meh” to AV. My main objection was that AV would increase the likelihood of the country being governed by bland centrist coalitions. However, now hopefully somewhat more...

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Easter's Approach

Written on Tuesday 19 Apr 2011

Not too many years ago, Easter fell early in the month of April. I spent it camping in a blizzard somewhere near Birmingham, packing in as many people as our tent would hold so that we wouldn’t freeze overnight. My choice to spend the daylight hours running around a frozen...

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Of Abandonment and Starlight

Written on Friday 15 Apr 2011

Winfrith’s “Starlight” children’s nursery has always struggled to stay open despite a lack of demand for its services. After one of many closures, it opened again late last year – only to close again in February after one of its staff was arrested (though never charged). Now it is abandoned...

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The Platform Blues

Written on Friday 15 Apr 2011

Hearts sink as the display updates from showing wildly inaccurate times to showing Delayed, Delayed, Delayed from top to bottom. “Signalling fault at Bournemouth”, it says, and we know then that all hope is lost. It is April now, and somewhere lilac trees and fields of dandelions are blooming. But...

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