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2010

23 Jul
My talk on the ZCA at Europython 2010
20 May
Link: The web as an ethical layer
21 Apr
Governmental Hypocrisy
19 Apr
Link: Cultivated Play: Farmville
2 Apr
On the iPad
31 Mar
On the "Floppy Disk" Save Icon
30 Mar
Link: 80 Photographies de Tokyo en HDR
29 Mar
Link: TOC 2010: Arianna Huffington, 'Publishing Is Dead; Long Live Publishing!'
12 Mar
Link: Seen Not Heard &mdash How obscure security makes school suck
10 Mar
Link: Harmony - Procedural drawing tool
1 Mar
Link: Streams of Content, Limited Attention
17 Feb
Syncing a media PC with simple tools
15 Feb
Link: An Indictment Against Ourselves
8 Feb
A new way with browser tabs
31 Jan
Why beer, then chips?
27 Jan
Note: I read a lot of longer-form content on my computer, like the articles in the Atlantic, so I'm always...
17 Jan
My web development essentials
15 Jan
Link: The Concept *is* the Execution

2009

16 Dec
Link: Weekend mode for Twitter Clients
11 Dec
Link: A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome
7 Dec
Link: Up to Nothing
2 Dec
Problems installing Collective.Dancing
1 Dec
Link: New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher
29 Nov
Link: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
28 Nov
Link: Twitter Starts Charging in Japan
27 Nov
Link: What if they stop clicking?
27 Nov
Link: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
26 Nov
Link: Danah Boyd talks about streams of Information
18 Nov
Font Rendering: Firefox vs Safari
17 Nov
Photos with an iPhone
23 Oct
MacPython 2.4 to Default Python on Snow Leopard
16 Oct
Replacing Live TV
28 Sep
Drobo Energy Usage
15 Sep
Using XBMC Plugins with Plex
9 Sep
My GEdit Setup
2 Sep
Using System.Web.Routing with WebForms
8 Aug
C#3, and Dynamic Languages
10 Jul
Google Chrome OS
4 Apr
Edinburgh to Bristol with EasyJet
25 Mar
St. Werburgh's City Farm
23 Mar
Don't keep calm and carry on
23 Mar
This Morning
21 Feb
iPhoto Face Recognition Fail
16 Feb
Spotify: Great music app

2008

21 Dec
Does Facebook Feel Safer than the Internet?
18 Dec
It's not like it's magic or anything
10 Dec
Facebook Connect
6 Dec
Titling Myself into Oblivion
6 Dec
Creativity and what to Focus On
3 Dec
On the Intelligent Life
5 Nov
4OD and VMWare 2
13 Oct
Meaning of Life
5 Oct
Gardening
2 Oct
Firefox to Chrome Makeover
17 Sep
Five Details of Google Chrome You May Have Missed
12 Sep
Installing ganglia-3.1.1 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron
2 Sep
My Top Five Technology Blogs
25 Aug
The Cotswolds
25 Aug
Vicious Circle of Writing
23 Aug
Losing Data
29 Jul
Grammatical Misunderstandings in the Bathroom and Computer Language Comprehension
6 Jul
Eerily, Horribly Familiar
6 Jul
Problems with God (, RubyInline and Rails)
3 Jul
Some Critique of The Long Tail
11 Jun
How the Internet is Shaping our Thoughts
4 Jun
Seattle Trip Photos
4 Jun
A Rose and A Yellow Something
26 May
Dot to Dot Festival 2008
6 May
A Rewarding Film Night
1 May
Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the HP Compaq 8510w
28 Apr
Two Quirks of Our Flat
23 Apr
The Background Hum of Friends
10 Apr
Guess what I've been up to
30 Mar
To Seattle for Work and Play
26 Mar
Solutions to Problems I Encountered Upgrading to Hardy Heron Beta
25 Mar
Hubs and short messages are the future
23 Mar
Moving beyond the walled-garden mindset
19 Mar
Self-Disclosure as Trust Builder on the Internet
15 Mar
Ladybird Invasion
13 Mar
The New Flat
8 Mar
When Sites Collide
1 Mar
dx13 is dead, long live dx13!
17 Feb
Stage Two Complete
6 Feb
Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Query Caching
5 Feb
iSync and w910i - Howto
5 Feb
Stage One Complete
31 Jan
Back in my Hands
27 Jan
FizzBuzz and I Feel a Little Smug
24 Jan
Using acts_as_sphinx with will_paginate in Rails
20 Jan
The Best Feature of the Upcoming Firefox 3
17 Jan
Shortening Code with Ruby and Rails
16 Jan
Apple's Rental Offering is Go (in US, at least)
9 Jan
Responsibilities in using data about your friends
8 Jan
Routing in Ruby on Rails
5 Jan
Apple Online Store has Real People to Help You
3 Jan
Digital Certificates for Government Services? (Pah)
1 Jan
Ten of my most used Mac applications

2007

30 Dec
Upping Antes
30 Dec
Film Rentals from iTunes on the Horizon
28 Dec
Form Feeding Function
22 Dec
Untethering the MacBook
19 Dec
Forwarding Sound and Control from Mac to Mac
16 Dec
My Flickr photos are now Creative Commons Licenced
9 Dec
Accounts, passwords, usernames... will it end?
8 Dec
Rails Frontend, Plain Ruby Backend using ActiveRecord and Friends
3 Dec
Introducing New Music
1 Dec
Buying Digital Music Online
28 Nov
Facebook's Bland Face
25 Nov
Bookmark Sharing and Music
24 Nov
Beautiful Software
21 Nov
Another New Face
11 Nov
Tohoku and Hokkaido
27 Oct
Japan; Oh, the food, the food!
23 Oct
The First Days in Tokyo
21 Oct
Back from Japan
4 Oct
Tripping to Japan
29 Sep
Reflections on Ahmadinejad's talk to Columbia University
26 Sep
The BusyBox Case
16 Sep
TED - Inspiring Talks from Exciting Thinkers
3 Sep
Yum (Unwarranted Food Exploitation)
29 Aug
More About Vista's Arbitrary Disabling of Features
28 Aug
Magic Seven and Code Understanding
25 Aug
On No-longer being a Software Pirate
18 Aug
Minimal Site Synchronisation using Changesets
13 Aug
AndaluciÌa
27 Jul
A Holiday in Spain
21 Jul
Transforming Arrays with Generics
16 Jul
Some Hard Data on Code Readability
8 Jul
Interacting via the Keyboard, and why it may be Firefox's Biggest Differentiator
2 Jul
Universal's Big Mistake, Thumbing Their Nose to Apple
23 Jun
The Invasion of Iraq, As Expressed in Code
20 Jun
Nine Circles of Hell and Web Services
18 Jun
The Peacock
14 Jun
More From The Lovely Catholic Church
12 Jun
My thoughts on Leopard
9 Jun
The UK's Science Teaching Farce
6 Jun
Pictures of the Flat and Templating Engines
3 Jun
Programs will Return
2 Jun
A New Face and Personality (Hello Ruby)
24 May
The View from Melrose Place at Night
21 May
New Abode, Second Day
13 May
One's Own Home (Almost)
7 May
Slight Improvement
4 May
On Being an Atheist
6 Apr
Apple and EMI's Interesting Announcement
18 Mar
Concurrency - New Frontier?
4 Mar
Link Blog 4th March 07
6 Feb
472 - Steve-Jobs-on-DRM
6 Feb
471 - An-Idea-For-Those-DRM-Junkies
3 Feb
470 - Intresting-things-I-cannot-Add-To
28 Jan
469 - Microsoft-Reply-to-vista_cost
21 Jan
468 - A-Generous-Offer
15 Jan
467 - What-Lies-Ahead
14 Jan
466 - Microsoft-Try-Design-(I-Hope)
2 Jan
465 - What are you optimistic about?

2006

31 Dec
464 - More-DRM-Joy-and-Logic
30 Dec
463 - Upon-Reflection
21 Dec
462 - Photos-and-Rails
17 Dec
461 - Crypto-schmypto
7 Dec
460 - Paris
4 Dec
459 - As-it-Stands
8 Nov
458 - Quick-Update-on-Abortion-in-South-Dakota
1 Nov
457 - The-Right-For-Abortion-Should-Be-Sacred
22 Oct
456 - Security-Is-Currently-Insanity
4 Oct
455 - The-Best-Gig-I--8217-ve-Ever-Been-To
17 Sep
454 - Tea-and-Sorrow
10 Sep
453 -
24 Aug
452 - No-Longer-a-Wikipedia-Virgin
6 Aug
451 - On-Who-Benefits-from-DRM
18 Jul
450 - Visual-Studio-Isn--8217-t-Great
5 Jul
449 - Spam-Overwhelming-A-Bit
27 Jun
448 - Why-DRM-Currently-Is-Broken
23 Jun
447 - Stuck-Inside-the-House
17 Jun
446 - First-few-days-with-the-Mac
15 Jun
445 - Trying-out-an-Apple
13 Jun
444 - Photolinking-from-Flock
4 Jun
443 - This-Bug-Needs-You
28 May
442 - Why-the-Toothpaste-is-Minty-One-
24 May
441 - Little-Bits-of-Things-that-are-Cool-(To-Me)
22 May
440 - SiteAdvisor-Bought
20 May
439 - Wide-Screens-and-Vertical-Taskbars
3 May
438 - Why-Mint-Flavoured-Toothpaste-
29 Apr
437 - A-Bit-About-Sleeping
23 Apr
436 - Enabling-MP3-Encoding-on-Ubuntu-Dapper
20 Apr
435 - Another--Thoughts-on-Music-
2 Apr
434 - Some-Album-Listening-Thoughts
1 Apr
433 - The-98--2--Email
30 Mar
432 - Those-Crazy-Australians
28 Mar
431 -
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430 - 2005-Music--A-Correction
19 Jan
429 - SiteAdvisor

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428 - 2005-Music--In-Review
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426 - Coffee-and-Tea-Production
2 Dec
425 - Gentoo-to-Ubuntu
23 Nov
424 - Another-IE-Hole
10 Nov
423 - Sony-Music-Is-Evil
1 Nov
422 - Installing-Wireless-Network-Cards-in-XP
8 Oct
421 - Friendly-Software
14 Sep
420 - A-rant-on--it--8217-s-not-complicated-
4 Sep
419 - More-Bluefunk
26 Aug
418 - Lowlands-2005
5 Jul
417 - Moving-House
20 Jun
416 - Open-Document-Formats
17 Jun
415 - Jobs--Jobs--Jobs
28 May
414 - Thesis-Handed-In
22 May
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412 - Backpack-pages-for-Bluefunk-and-Feedfunk
11 May
411 - Blake-Ross-Knows-Where-It--8217-s-At
6 May
410 - Duckin--8217--and-Divin--8217-
24 Apr
409 - Google-Maps-Arrives
23 Apr
408 - IE7-stuff
23 Mar
407 - Call-for-Project-Testers
5 Mar
406 - Project-Progress--Scale-Down-O--8217-Clock
23 Feb
405 - Perhaps-I-Shall-Call
21 Feb
404 - The-University-Project
18 Feb
403 - Mono--Bluefunk--Plugins-and-a-Mystery-Project
17 Feb
402 - Save-the-W0r1d-
15 Feb
401 - Beagle--Bluefunk-and-Plugin-Systems
11 Feb
400 - Sticking-With-C-
8 Feb
399 - Bluefunk-0-1-Released
1 Feb
398 - The-MVC-of-Web-Page-Design
29 Jan
397 - Exams-Are-Over-
24 Jan
396 - Goodbye--fair-hand
23 Jan
395 - My-GA--8217-s-GP--8217-s-TSSs
19 Jan
394 - More-Identifiable-Email
16 Jan
393 - A-Rude-Awakening-
12 Jan
392 - Bluefunk-Page-Up--May-Go-Ruby
8 Jan
391 - One-More-Down
6 Jan
390 - So--Apparently--I--8217-m-A-Communist
3 Jan
388 - For-All-The-Lazy-People
3 Jan
389 - New-Year--8217-s-Eve

2004

13 Dec
387 - So-So-So-So-So-Tempting
12 Dec
386 - Marry-Me--Oh-SMS
12 Dec
385 - Well--Blow-Me-Down
4 Dec
384 - For-Those-RSS-Junkies
1 Dec
383 - Bluefunk--Not-Actually-Muine
25 Nov
382 - Are-We-Not-Legends--No--Go-Away
22 Nov
381 - Merely-Busy
14 Nov
379 - For-The-Curious---
14 Nov
380 - Hell-Yeah--Lowlands
10 Nov
378 - Crossed-Fingers--All---
5 Nov
377 - The-Whys-Of-Disappointment
3 Nov
376 - Oh-Well
31 Oct
374 - Gmail-Bug--Very-Bad
31 Oct
375 - Windows-for-Cashpoints--Sucky-As-Hell
26 Oct
373 - John-Peel--He-Will-Be-Missed
26 Oct
372 - More-Randoms
25 Oct
371 - Bluefunk-in-CVS
23 Oct
369 - bluefunk-of-sf-net
23 Oct
370 - Regina-Spektor-desire
21 Oct
368 - Crossing-of-Fingers
19 Oct
367 - bluefunkyness
17 Oct
366 - Firefox---Good-----Great
14 Oct
365 - Google-on-the-Desktop
13 Oct
363 - bluefunkyness
12 Oct
362 - Post-For-The-Camera-Shy
6 Oct
361 - A-Sense-of-Irony-Ensued
6 Oct
360 - bluefunkyness
4 Oct
359 - Updationary-Informing
30 Sep
358 - Bad-Things--tear-
28 Sep
357 - Xorg-Eye-Candy--We-Like
27 Sep
356 - bluefunk-Quick-Status
21 Sep
355 - Muchos-Spamos
20 Sep
354 - Crazy-Mad-DRM-(More-Logical-Is-Paranoia)
19 Sep
353 - Why-is-MS-so-scared-of-Linux-
17 Sep
352 - bluefunk-status--nicer-code-abounds
14 Sep
351 - --8217-He--8217-s-just-sleeping--8217-
12 Sep
350 - PJ-Harvey--People--Indeed
10 Sep
349 - bluefunkyness
9 Sep
347 - Old-Skool
9 Sep
348 - Simple-vs-Neat
8 Sep
346 - You-Have-Unused-Icons
7 Sep
345 - No-More-Noise
3 Sep
344 - Stupid-System-Tray-Icon-Rant
2 Sep
343 - Program-Updates
30 Aug
342 - An-Application-(COAB---in-joke--sorry-)
29 Aug
341 - Linux-Rocks--Tell-me-something-new-
28 Aug
339 - Sales-Madness-
28 Aug
340 - A-Passing-in-the-Disks
25 Aug
338 - Source-Code-a-k-a-Useful
18 Aug
337 - The-Holland-Trip
10 Aug
336 - Refactoring-Top-Seven-(My-Personal)
9 Aug
335 - Spam--Instinct-Nearly-Leads-To-Error
2 Aug
334 - Fireballs-Of-A-Daring-Nature
31 Jul
333 - Online-Banking-And-My-Fortune
25 Jul
332 - Set-up-of-iPod-Mini-in-Linux
24 Jul
331 - J--8217-ai-une-iPod-Mini
20 Jul
330 - So--To-Avert-A-Disruption---
17 Jul
329 - On-The-Eating-of-Hats
9 Jul
328 - Add-Remove-Programs--8217--Size--It--8217-s-All-Ju
9 Jul
327 - More-Comments-Features--And-So-On
8 Jul
325 - Icons--Or-Stay-Sans-Images-
8 Jul
326 - It--8217-s-Genius-I-Tell-You--Genius
7 Jul
324 - StarOffice-Adverts--ehm--Memorable
6 Jul
323 - Design-Absent-Without-Leave
4 Jul
321 - CERT-Recommends-Switching-Browser
4 Jul
320 - IIS-IE-Rant--More-Calm
4 Jul
322 - Blog-Comments-Added
1 Jul
319 - To-Hell-With-Bad-Browsers-(and-Their-Users)
30 Jun
318 - I-Could-Care-Less--WTF--
29 Jun
317 - Java--it's-More-Powerful-Than-I-Thought
27 Jun
316 - On-Vi--And-Why-I-Like-It
26 Jun
313 - She-Appears-at-the-Door
26 Jun
314 - It-Would-Appear--Not-a-Dream
26 Jun
315 - Congrats-to-Scidd0w--Wendy-and-Country--)
25 Jun
312 - IDEs-and-Vi
24 Jun
311 - An-Explaination-and--in-Addition--a-Worry
23 Jun
310 - Romanticising-in-and-around-one's-workplace
20 Jun
308 - Kernel-Sources-Take-Up-Lots-Of-Space-Shocker
20 Jun
309 - Gmail
19 Jun
307 - Epiphany-vs-Firefox--current-status
15 Jun
306 - Firefox-and-Ephiphany
13 Jun
305 - Well--duh-
12 Jun
304 - Web-Standards-and-Reality
11 Jun
303 - Linux-2-6-Kernel-Impressions
9 Jun
302 - Another-design
8 Jun
301 - udev---good--devfs---bad
7 Jun
300 - Strange-things-in-the-Street
6 Jun
299 - More-Spatial--Applications
5 Jun
298 - Hello-Kitty-Stalinised
2 Jun
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