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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It’s no secret that the current state of my SuccessWhale social network client is not a good one. It currently exists in three forms: The main server runs SuccessWhale version 2.0.3. It’s not been updated in nearly a year, and the only changes within the last three years have been...
Last Saturday was the Linux User & Developer Raspberry Jam event at Poole RNLI college. I took the tank, of course, and the child too — worrying all the while that they’d be the youngest kid there by about ten years, and would get bored within half an hour. How...