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Another Summer Gone

Written on Sunday 15 Sep 2013

A young man of twenty-eight summers, I cling to that word “young” as long as I can, though already it is slipping away. As another summer departs, and with it another year, autumn permeates body and soul. A few short weeks ago, the sun shone and our town sweltered in...

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Sharing Isn't Caring

Written on Sunday 8 Sep 2013

Like many angsty young adults, I spent the last few months of my time at University wondering what would become of the friendships I’d made there — which friends I’d keep in touch with; how often I’d see them. Having lived and worked with many of them, and shared each...

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Your System is Compromised

Written on Friday 6 Sep 2013

I’ve spent much of the last few months resolutely not commenting on the NSA spying scandal, Edward Snowden, PRISM and all the other revelations that have been published by the Guardian and the New York Times recently. While 99% of the population continue without knowing or caring what the implications...

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HOWTO: Draw Scatter Graphs

Written on Thursday 15 Aug 2013

Scatter graphs are useful when you have two bits of information about some things, and you want to see if there’s some relationship between them. So for example, say you wanted to see if it was more expensive to buy coffee in the town centre than further away. You could...

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The End of Westminster Hubble

Written on Wednesday 17 Jul 2013

Three years ago, after a two-month secret development period working with my old school friend Chris, we announced Westminster Hubble. The name was a pun on the “Westminster Bubble” in which MPs are sometimes unkindly said to live — implying a lack of awareness of the rest of the country...

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ChromeCopter 2000

Written on Thursday 11 Jul 2013

I’ve been asked several times whether I would be attending various Nodecopter events, even more so now that the fledgling hackerspace I am part of is getting to know about my love of robots. My reason for saying “no” every time is that it would tip me over the edge...

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Never Say Goodbye

Written on Tuesday 2 Jul 2013

As my previous post on closing my Last.fm account might indicate, I’m currently on something of an account-closing spree. Closing online accounts seems to be a rarity these days, and more than once I’ve been asked why I bother. My reasons are pretty simple, so I suppose I care about...

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The Last of Last.fm: Seven Years in Pretty Graphs

Written on Sunday 30 Jun 2013

I started using Last.fm back in 2006, in the final months of my time at University, and have carried on using it up until a few months ago, despite coming to the conclusion that I should stop back in 2011. Although the social media narcissism of “everyone must know what...

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Announcing: "Can I Call It...?"

Written on Tuesday 23 Apr 2013

There are a whole host of decisions involved with starting a new software project. What’s my target audience? What language shall I write it in? Which libraries shall I use? And of course, “What shall I call it?” So picking a name for an open-source project or tool is IMPOSSIBLE...

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From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee, Thou Facebook Privacy Model

Written on Wednesday 27 Mar 2013

This morning I tweeted my annoyance with Facebook’s privacy model, and since that provoked some (albeit minor) reaction, I thought I’d follow it up with a better explanation of what I’m on about. Have you ever used a third-party app to access Facebook – such as TweetDeck, FriendCaster or my...

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