March
27th

I've set up my own blog. Hopefully this will help keep my content current, and avoid the...

tagged with blogging, first, meta, start
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I said it two years ago, and I'll say it again: look out for polymer displays! They've actually...

tagged with future, technology
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Goodness, I'm all blog-happy! Hopefully I'll write some longer ones soon. But I just had to include...

tagged with future, technology
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28th

There's a brilliant article on AlterNet about America's attitude to school shootings: namely, that...

tagged with columbine, rant, statistics
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There's just no excuse for not using The Bat as your e-mail client if you use Windows. No Outlook...

tagged with email, plug, software
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30th

Well, after two weeks of unemployment (I'm on vacation, and need money to avoid going into the red)...

tagged with work
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April
2nd

I got a new mobile the other day, the ubiquitous Nokia 3210. I've been having fun with custom ring...

tagged with boltblue, hardware, mobile, technology
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I've stopped posting interesting stuff I read on SlashDot for two reasons: It's all interesting,...

tagged with slashdot
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Hilariously, if you know the people involved, a management coup has apparently been attempted at...

tagged with brainspark, easyart, funny, history, personal, work
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3rd

Okay, so this one's worth mentioning... a black-hat hacker's diary on ZDNet: they paid two...

tagged with hacking
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A really interesting new concept: Extreme Programming. A bit of a misnomer, it's actually a new set...

tagged with development, extremeprogramming, software, xp
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7th

Fame at last! Kinda. A few weeks ago, my housemate Simon exhibited a better-than-average display...

tagged with anecdote, dilbert, funny
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9th

Reason just rocks. Journalistic intelligence in its purest natural form. Rocks rock rocks.

tagged with plug
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10th

Have found another pretty good site for text messaging -- free SMS, costs 5p per message if you...

tagged with mobile, sms, technology
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11th

Fantastic article on Kuro5hin (a sort of Slashdot clone, but more general in scope) about the...

tagged with capitalism, idea
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Also, I may be in love.

tagged with naive, personal
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12th

Should you ever have to, as I am now, work with a database in MS Access, this place is a pretty...

tagged with google, reference
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16th

I am under the impression I should be posting to this a lot more than I am. Four days is a rather...

tagged with personal
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17th

More on the possibilities of plastic transistors, one of the ingredients in the flexible displays...

tagged with future, technology
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18th

Today's articles of interest include another Wired article on big media in the US, a fairly good...

tagged with dotbomb, recession, scratchpad, statistics
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I need to get into the habit of posting all the articles I find interesting here. Here's one from a...

tagged with scratchpad
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Next generation fibre optics will be hollow tubes filled with air. And it only took them forty...

tagged with future, technology
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Fantastic news! (Thanks to Ed for pointing it out). Apparently, laziness is good for you. This may...

tagged with health, news, random, research
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19th

Fame! I'm gonna live forever, etc.. Hot on the heels of my Dilbert-newsletter fame, I have finally...

tagged with dilbert, movie, review, slashdot
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COLUMBINE RANT

tagged with articles, columbine, rant, writing
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20th

The Economist has an interesting article about Silicon Fen, the Silicon-Valley equivalent in...

tagged with business, economist, siliconvalley, uk
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My acquaintance (he would probably object if I called him my friend) Matt Elton has put up as...

tagged with blogging, plug
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22nd

I am grievously ill, and back at University. I will probably not be posting for a few days as a...

tagged with health
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26th

I am just about better now, but without in-room internet access thanks to the ever-clever IT...

tagged with health
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28th

Back in London for a weekend, what joy. An amusing link comparing Microsoft Tech Support and the...

tagged with life, london, microsoft, parody
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30th

I hate getting access from the Computer Science building at uni. I have to do all my online...

tagged with life, university
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May
1st

Such a pity. I was all geared up to spend the day rubbing my hands and giggling as bearded...

tagged with anarchy, culture, mayday, news, uk
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2nd

Hooray, non-corporate news! IndyMedia appears to rock; I will investigate further. Continuing in my...

tagged with scratchpad
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4th

A fairly amusing article in the otherwise dull Telegraph about the town of Telford being destroyed...

tagged with scratchpad
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6th

Thanks again to wondrous Ed for the very amusing stick-man kung fu. Clearly, this guy has too much...

tagged with dotnet, meme, microsoft, web, windows, xp
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8th

Told ya. Microsoft changes to three-year licensing plan. You no longer own your copy of Office,...

tagged with licensing, microsoft, software
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13th

Depressing. Douglas Adams has died of a heart attack, suddenly. He was only 49.

tagged with douglasadams, hitchhiker's guide, obituary
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An amusing page about why Titanic was a bad movie. What's amusing is the fact that the movie was...

tagged with movie, satire, titanic
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18th

Revising is boring.

tagged with bored
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20th

Die, XBox, die! Microsoft's new gaming console crashes during a demo, revealing a PC-like boot...

tagged with games, microsoft, xbox
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21st

It has recently been suggested that the content of this weblog is a subset of the content of...

tagged with blogging, meta, slashdot
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24th

Cool! Play a clone of Risk online. Thanks to Nigel for sending me the link. The game looks pretty...

tagged with games
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25th

I had an interesting lecture this morning by a guy from Intel about the Pentium 4, the Itanium, and...

tagged with university
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There was also a mildly interesting article about dinosaur robots that really walk and talk. Well,...

tagged with life, london, movie, obscure, personal, reference, scratchpad
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Are these people really smart, or really dumb? Scientists created nanotubes in well-ordered arrays,...

tagged with scratchpad
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29th

An interesting article on Reason (as always) asking why is polygamy illegal? True, it's kind of an...

tagged with ethics, microsoft, morality, polygamy, windows
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31st

Sadly -- especially from the standpoint of my revision -- I am once again addicted to Big Brother....

tagged with exams, university
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June
9th

Aaargh, aargh, arrgh! Exams are evil! And very depressing. But not as depressing as my bank...

tagged with deadlines, exams, university
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14th

Hooray, exams are over! Now I'm unemployed again. Oh well. Job Hunt 2001 (TM) is now on, and I may...

tagged with exams, university, work
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27th

Told ya. People are complaining about the new product activation feature in Windows XP. So MS...

tagged with microsoft, stupid, windows, xp
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July
4th

Continuing my anti-Microsoft (who, me?) rant of recent days, here's an article about Kodak being...

tagged with microsoft, monopoly, windows
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6th

Way to go with shooting yourself in the foot, Bill! Good news on the I-hate-Windows front at last....

tagged with billgates, dotnet, microsoft, mono, windows
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20th

Okay, so I'm scared. The first arrest under the DMCA has been made. This was always a very scary...

tagged with copyright, dmca, law, stupid, usa
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25th

Hmm. Flat panel CRTs have been developed by IBM; just as cheap as the latest LCDs and possibly...

tagged with future, technology
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29th

Okay, this is really getting beyond a joke. George W. Bush really need to be stopped. According to...

tagged with georgewbush, stupid
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31st

Okay, so it's my first day of work at the new job. So, why am I blogging instead of working?...

tagged with premiumtv, work
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August
2nd

Day 3 of the new job is at an end, and things are looking very nice indeed. I'm learning oodles...

tagged with premiumtv, work
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6th

Semi-interesting and way too long article on the structure of the Internet. Executive summary: it's...

tagged with architecture, history, internet, reference
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7th

Ooh! Get in on this one quick. A new language called Curl, with Tim Berners-Lee (like, the inventor...

tagged with curl, tbl, technology, web
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10th

Dammit, I'm being outclassed! Now more than one of my friends has a top-notch website being...

tagged with blogging, plug
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15th

Ooooooh. Can I have one?

tagged with gay, lust, personal
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16th

In the news today: the Onion, which you should really be reading every week anyway, presents highly...

tagged with humour, theonion
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21st

I was interested by this page of global internet usage statistics. For instance, less than 50% of...

tagged with internet, population, scratchpad, statistics, yahoo
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22nd

Never a truer word was spoken. Survey question: "Across the U.S. and on Capitol Hill, debate is...

tagged with cloning, funny, satire, theonion
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24th

Long weekend! Woohoo! Now, if only I didn't have so much work to do, things would be fine. Some...

tagged with scratchpad, work
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28th

In between a surprisingly productive weekend, I finished reading Space by Stephen Baxter. It's a...

tagged with book, review
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29th

Buzz was funny today; Adobe has a press release about its new product, including a hilarious quote...

tagged with marketing, stupid
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31st

I don't know what's more sad: the fact that boxers are beginning to get into...

tagged with gay, homophobia
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This kicks butt. Oh yes, indeed. A web-enabled Etch-A-Sketch! That's not an application that looks...

tagged with fun, gadgets, internet
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September
3rd

The first neuroelectronic chip. It's all very cool -- neurons grown on silicon, signals passing...

tagged with biology, computing, future, science, technology
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4th

Hee hee! In case you didn't have enough reasons to dislike George Bush, according to New Scientist...

tagged with georgewbush, military, starwars, stupid, usa
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5th

For those of you not from the UK, the Daily Mail is a staunchly right-wing newspaper. Now, without...

tagged with humour, satire
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7th

The next time you really need to insult someone, remember to say "You're nothing but a...

tagged with random
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This is really quite good, if you have a stupidly fast Internet connection: Pig Brother. Yes, 5...

tagged with random, scratchpad
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8th

Attention, all computer-using citizens of the United States. EMIGRATE NOW. Hot on the heels of the...

tagged with copyright, law, usa
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12th

Goodbye, WTC. Goodbye, world as we know it.

tagged with september11
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20th

This is my first blog post-WTC. I'll be posting a bunch about WTC and related items after a while,...

tagged with september11
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October
3rd

The RIAA is planning an offensive against the new crop of file-sharing services, including a PR...

tagged with copyright, law, riaa
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15th

At last, the long wait is over! Forgive me for losing perspective somewhat, but we have ADSL and...

tagged with history, personal
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17th

A sign that things are getting back to normal: I read the Onion today, and found their WTC issue....

tagged with humour, september11, theonion
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24th

Interesting things I've found or been pointed to in week 2 of fast Internet access... this quite...

tagged with scratchpad
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November
2nd

It's time for another round of Microsoft-bashing -- you know how much fun that is. It's been a bad...

tagged with business, microsoft, news, technology
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3rd

Worrying: Osama bin Laden makes a televised statement, and five major US networks agree not to...

tagged with censorship, freedomofspeech, osamabinladen
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7th

Okay, so a few random funny things. Firstly, Office XP apparently no longer has clippy, that...

tagged with funny, microsoft, random, software
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9th

Wow, Ralph Nader has done something! In his first impingement on my consciousness since election,...

tagged with politics, ralphnader, usa
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I had forgotten.

tagged with september11
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14th

An interesting argument and counter-argument about how computer security should work. One side...

tagged with computing, security
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16th

All hail the cut-and-paste grafitti artists of this world. Also, nobby the northern dinosaur's 50...

tagged with art, scratchpad
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17th

It's official, I love Beautiful Garbage. The first album was good, Version 2.0 was better, and this...

tagged with music, review
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21st

Well, it's time for a bookmark dump. Things I've bookmarked recently but not mentioned here: A...

tagged with scratchpad
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27th

Thanks to Simon Miles for this link to GagPipe -- why bother with one satirical website when you...

tagged with identity, university
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28th

Scary chart of worldwide HIV/AIDS cases since 1980. Aaargh! It's World AIDS day on December 1st,...

tagged with africa, aids, hiv, statistics
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30th

Think you know how big companies are? This list of who owns what will surprise you. Okay, so you...

tagged with business, statistics
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Perspective please, people. Okay, so one of the less-popular members of a pop group that split up...

tagged with culture, eulogy, music, uk
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December
4th

It's nearly Christmas. Do you feel Christmassy? Are you in debt yet? Are you stressed out? Or do...

tagged with christmas
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6th

Sadly, it looks like the web-enabled etch-a-sketch is no longer around. But fear not! Coming to...

tagged with scratchpad
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Hilarious. As reported by Slashdot and Wired, KPMG says you cannot -- must not -- link to its site....

tagged with funny, law, stupid, web
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8th

Yay for Darren's 21st birthday party! Talking, dancing, drinking, puking and much merriness,...

tagged with edan, history, identity, party, university
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11th

This is worth mentioning: Google Groups (the web-based USENET service from Google) has now expanded...

tagged with google
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16th

Get 'em while they're hot! Your number one site for Anna Kournikova bestiality pics (scroll down....

tagged with random
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17th

Asperger's Syndrome and autism are rising sharply in Silicon Valley because the same genes that...

tagged with aspergers, autism, biology, california, genetics, research, science, siliconvalley
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24th

Merry Christmas eve! I probably won't post for a while, so I should get this in now. No...

tagged with christmas
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30th

The Info Service (your guess is as good as mine) maintains this really quite fabulous index of...

tagged with scratchpad
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31st

Text-mode Quake 2! Okay, so I don't play Quake and I seldom use text mode, but it's still a cool...

tagged with games, random
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