Archive

2024

17 Nov 2024
Adventures in the Third Dimension
8 Nov 2024
Moving to Caddy
2 Nov 2024
What's In A Name?
1 Nov 2024
A Change of Host
12 Aug 2024
Not Endorsed by the IOC
6 Aug 2024
Getting to Know the ZX81
19 Jul 2024
Mystery RAM
14 Jul 2024
Effin' Keys
6 Jul 2024
Math Notes: Finally
30 Jun 2024
Pass and Fail
13 Jun 2024
Ten Years at the Mill
9 Jun 2024
ZX81 Composite Mod
1 Jun 2024
Bread and Crocodiles
22 May 2024
Long Service
20 May 2024
Retro Frustrations
6 May 2024
Getting Ink
31 Mar 2024
#MARCHintosh: The End is the Beginning
29 Mar 2024
#MARCHintosh: MacWeb
10 Mar 2024
#MARCHintosh: Partial Success
29 Feb 2024
#MARCHintosh
23 Feb 2024
Keyboards
11 Feb 2024
Cheap and Cheerful
30 Jan 2024
First Contacts
24 Jan 2024
The 41st Anniversary of the Information Purification Directives
8 Jan 2024
Read Something Wonderful

2023

18 Dec 2023
Good Night, Good Luck, Merry Christmas
7 Dec 2023
A New Role
25 Nov 2023
Ferris Sweep
25 Oct 2023
Layout Evolution
25 Aug 2023
1983
20 Aug 2023
The One Percent
11 Jun 2023
Vision 3G
6 Jun 2023
OMG They Actually Did The Googly Eyes: Quick WWDC Thoughts
4 Jun 2023
The Network is The Computer
29 May 2023
Capable modules?
25 May 2023
VR, AR, XR, YR?
3 Apr 2023
Bea Wolf
25 Mar 2023
Objection!
19 Mar 2023
Corporate Scotsmanhood
5 Feb 2023
On Bullshit
2 Feb 2023
Writing Less

2022

22 Sep 2022
Artifical Id
30 Jul 2022
Still Racing The Beam
3 Jul 2022
Flying Solo
28 May 2022
The Ratio
2 May 2022
Oops I Did It Again
31 Mar 2022
There's No Place Like Home-Row
27 Feb 2022
This Little Finger On My Right
12 Feb 2022
Infrastructure As Intent
31 Jan 2022
No Twitter Challenge — Done
30 Jan 2022
There's More Than One Way To Do It
26 Jan 2022
Why Make a Keyboard
15 Jan 2022
Twenty Years of rho.org.uk

2021

31 Dec 2021
No Twitter Challenge
30 Dec 2021
No Tape?
10 Dec 2021
The Corne Maze
13 Nov 2021
A Keyboard in Twenty-Four Tweets
31 Aug 2021
Starting Small
1 Mar 2021
Podcast — Life Sci AI

2020

5 Dec 2020
Us and Them
1 Dec 2020
Fresh Air
22 Jun 2020
Out on a Limb
10 Feb 2020
TSConf 2019 — TypeScript at the Cutting Edge
1 Jan 2020
The Stuff of 2019

2019

14 Oct 2019
TSConf 2019
1 Jun 2019
Five Years
11 Feb 2019
Weird Bobby Tables
22 Jan 2019
A Great Year for Blogging

2018

30 Jan 2018
Eve

2017

31 Dec 2017
Ringing in the Changes
28 Dec 2017
Quarg
26 May 2017
Ducks
23 Jan 2017
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage
22 Jan 2017
Now Playing

2016

27 Nov 2016
How To Get Ahead In Pro Computing
14 Nov 2016
Ain't Got Nothing
18 Aug 2016
In The Abstract
12 Jun 2016
HyperDev, HyperCard and a Small Matter of Programming

2015

9 Dec 2015
Web Fonts
18 Sep 2015
Hashes In Space
29 Aug 2015
Toys
7 Jun 2015
MonolithFirst
18 May 2015
Margaret
2 Apr 2015
Blogtools
20 Mar 2015
(happy-birthday 'emacs)
25 Jan 2015
Blast from the Past
21 Jan 2015
The Empire Strikes Back
7 Jan 2015
Learning

2014

31 Dec 2014
ML for the Working Programmer
29 Nov 2014
New Look
1 Nov 2014
Allies
17 Aug 2014
End of an era
27 Feb 2014
Comprehensive Data Archive Network
24 Jan 2014
1984
16 Jan 2014
Progress

2013

2 Jul 2013
Google Reader Death Watch Diary (Special Edition)
7 May 2013
A Hostage To Fortune
6 May 2013
Google Is Not Your Friend
7 Apr 2013
A Programmer No More
17 Mar 2013
Rosalind
19 Jan 2013
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

2012

7 Nov 2012
Near Field Of Dreams
27 Aug 2012
Apple vs Samsung
21 Aug 2012
Good News!
19 Aug 2012
Twitter Ye Not?
5 Aug 2012
RaspPi Vnc HowTo
28 Jun 2012
TidyMail
29 May 2012
Dunce, Monkeyboy
5 Mar 2012
Aim High
29 Feb 2012
Raspberry Pi Launched

2011

4 Nov 2011
Of Gardens and Sandboxes
1 Nov 2011
Ritchie and McCarthy
12 Oct 2011
VNC on the Raspberry Pi
15 Sep 2011
Mmmm... Pie...
20 Aug 2011
Loot or Fiddle
11 Jun 2011
Give Me Inconvenience, Or Give Me Death!
9 Apr 2011
All Change. Again.
27 Feb 2011
New Banner
12 Feb 2011
Panic On The Streets Of Espoo

2010

7 Nov 2010
Unchained Melody
4 Nov 2010
Purple Parsnip & Celariac Soup
31 Oct 2010
Just My Type
21 Oct 2010
No Comment
24 Jul 2010
Flattry Might Get You Somewhere
8 Jun 2010
Life
20 Apr 2010
Bring Out The Gimp
14 Apr 2010
The Photoshop Election
1 Apr 2010
Weekend Project: Worksheets

2009

1 Dec 2009
NaNoWriMo 2009
31 Oct 2009
Learning by experience, and how not to do it
24 Sep 2009
SilverService and Snow Leopard
3 May 2009
LinkSys WRT54GS DHCP Problem (Mac OS and Linux)
24 Apr 2009
Marketing & Social Media - Another Way To Do It Right
10 Apr 2009
The Wire
22 Feb 2009
The Ties That Bind
24 Jan 2009
Happy Birthday
3 Jan 2009
Fooled and Poked By Random Liars

2008

23 Nov 2008
Death by typing
20 Nov 2008
AppJet, or "You killed Anne L. Retentive with a typo?"
15 Nov 2008
Once
10 Nov 2008
Bread
9 Nov 2008
Hiatus (and return)
29 Sep 2008
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
20 Sep 2008
The Understudy
30 Aug 2008
Hellboy Gets Smart
25 Aug 2008
A problem with time
17 Aug 2008
It's Alive!
16 Aug 2008
New Look
23 Jul 2008
New Site, New Software

2007

25 Jan 2007
ThisService

2006

22 Jun 2006
Surprise Delivery
28 Mar 2006
Raising The Drunken Rant Bar
20 Feb 2006
When The Long Tail Wags The Dog
14 Feb 2006
The BDFL Has My Phone!

2005

5 Oct 2005
Spam plagiarism
4 Oct 2005
McCarthy - the Zach Braff of Computer Science
3 Oct 2005
Online WIMPs
19 Sep 2005
Shiver Me Timbers!
8 Sep 2005
Internet history, Manufactured for Your Convenience
6 Sep 2005
Inequality and Risk and Paul and Tim
4 Sep 2005
JustZIPit - The bright side of hard disk failure
23 Aug 2005
Wil Wheaton is right...
21 Aug 2005
Oops...
19 Jul 2005
How Things Work
28 Jun 2005
Disaster!
16 May 2005
Azuro lanuched
15 May 2005
Ring my friend, I said you'd call
10 May 2005
Manamana
5 May 2005
Don't forget to vote
28 Feb 2005
Creative Commons
6 Feb 2005
The Cutting Edge
26 Jan 2005
The children! Won't somebody think of the children!
5 Jan 2005
Oh dear

2004

9 Nov 2004
FireFox 1.0 Released
7 Nov 2004
Bloglines
9 Oct 2004
Venerable Educational Institution Saved by Caius
22 Sep 2004
Makes a change from Viagra
21 Sep 2004
Sensible Title Bars Under Windows XP
19 Sep 2004
Lest ye be forgettin'...
5 Sep 2004
To buy one Apple product may be viewed as misfortune...
23 Aug 2004
Stick 'Em Up
22 Aug 2004
Still here
1 Jun 2004
InKeWriMo
27 May 2004
Extensible Programming for the 21st Century
27 May 2004
Got One
12 May 2004
Added CV
9 May 2004
ClickPod?
9 May 2004
Where can you see lions?
29 Mar 2004
SilverService 0.1 Released
10 Mar 2004
RAM - Cureall or Panacea?
9 Mar 2004
Best Technical Documentation Ever
1 Feb 2004
Added CLOTH
26 Jan 2004
Yet Another Way To Waste Time
14 Jan 2004
42, Actually
7 Jan 2004
Spot The Difference
5 Jan 2004
Small but Useful

2003

29 Dec 2003
Dave didn't whack my google, but it is nevertheless whacked
17 Dec 2003
I've been Registered
11 Dec 2003
Metadata, Good and Bad
11 Dec 2003
Towers, As Far As The Eye Can See
9 Dec 2003
Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
3 Dec 2003
Poplee will bleeive ayhinntg they raed
19 Nov 2003
nXML-mode: How XML should Work
12 Nov 2003
News is dead! Long live News!
12 Nov 2003
CoolURI 0.2
6 Nov 2003
Alas...
3 Nov 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
28 Oct 2003
Argh! My Life Points!
24 Oct 2003
Le fin de Concorde (or something)
23 Oct 2003
Transglobal Emporium - for all your luxury shed and caravan calendar needs.
20 Oct 2003
The Beginning of the End
20 Oct 2003
Patent Pending?
20 Oct 2003
My contribution...
20 Oct 2003
I be due for a keel-hauling
20 Oct 2003
Cool URIs
19 Oct 2003
Popped my eBay cherry
16 Oct 2003
Licensing Rant
15 Oct 2003
Talking about Talking
13 Oct 2003
I'm blogging this right now
2 Oct 2003
The Other King Is Dead...
1 Oct 2003
Coke uses GPS to track prizewinners
28 Sep 2003
Fun with NTL
28 Sep 2003
Mmm... Blowfish...
19 Sep 2003
Prepare To Be Boarded...
19 Sep 2003
Now Powered By Blosxom
8 Sep 2003
Still Blosxoming
3 Sep 2003
Good thing, bad thing
3 Sep 2003
To Blosxom, Or Not To Blosxom
23 Jul 2003
Why 1984 wasn't like "1984"
4 Jun 2003
Look at me, MA
4 Apr 2003
A Conversation
4 Apr 2003
CompSci History
18 Mar 2003
Dammit
10 Mar 2003
The Jargon File
10 Mar 2003
Yikes
31 Jan 2003
Grüezi

2002

28 Dec 2002
A Christmas Message
4 Dec 2002
Bite-Sized Chunks
2 Dec 2002
I may live to regret this...
1 Dec 2002
Thank $ENTITY It's All Over
30 Nov 2002
Yay!
27 Nov 2002
Going well...
20 Nov 2002
Now with added validation!
20 Nov 2002
Head above water
15 Nov 2002
Wiigii!
7 Nov 2002
D'Oh!
5 Nov 2002
Almost ahead of myself.
4 Nov 2002
Above the line (just)
1 Nov 2002
These Words Don't Count
25 Oct 2002
Friday Morning Grab-Bag
17 Oct 2002
Apple Destroys Trees - Film At 11
14 Oct 2002
NaNoWriMo - I Must Be Mad
14 Oct 2002
Added UnityWiki
11 Oct 2002
You Learn Something New Every Day
7 Oct 2002
Things That Stop Me Doing Work On Monday
4 Jul 2002
New Scripts
3 Jul 2002
New Sections - Mac and Me
3 Jul 2002
First Post!
3 Jul 2002
The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
20 Jun 2002
Got Fink Working
12 Jun 2002
Mac 1, Unix 0
9 Jun 2002
Got it
23 Apr 2002
Pre-purchase Cognitive Dissonance
16 Apr 2002
Pigs
13 Mar 2002
Added newfile
13 Mar 2002
In, Out, Shake It All About
13 Mar 2002
Added "Software"
13 Mar 2002
Page Created
7 Mar 2002
I'm 24
7 Mar 2002
Hear yourself think
13 Feb 2002
Pixar go back to their roots
18 Jan 2002
Added "Links"
18 Jan 2002
Shifman...
15 Jan 2002
Up and Running

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