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Reasons to support same-sex marriage – the short version!
I’m quite pleased with my blog post about why legalising same-sex marriage is the only logical option. It took me ages to finish, and I think it’s quite thorough. But at over three thousand words long, it’s not exactly bite-sized! So here I present its boiled down essence, in the form of an imaginary dialog. [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 10 July 2012 | 9:41 pm
Why legalising same-sex marriage is the only logical option
Ever since a friend posted a quote on Facebook from this article about same-sex marriage by Archbishop John Sentamu, I’ve had a lengthy analysis and response drifting through my mind. The government consultation ended on the 14th of June, and they’ve indicated they intend to press ahead with legalisation, but the debate is still very [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 8 July 2012 | 9:27 pm
REAMDE: A Review
For my birthday, my sister’s fiancé gallantly lugged all the way from California a pre-publication copy of Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, “REAMDE”. At just short of a thousand pages, it must have taken a fair chunk of his luggage allowance, and like a 3-hour movie, you can’t help but feel that a book that long [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 27 November 2011 | 7:13 pm
Cached Redirects Considered Harmful (and how browsers can fix them)
There are a lot of URLs out there on the Web; and a pretty big number of those URLs are either alternative names for something, or old locations that have been superseded. So “redirects” from one URL to another are a common feature of the web, and have been for many years. But recently, the [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 9 October 2011 | 9:57 pm
Why I Hate Shopping
I’ve never been very good at spending money. I’m lucky enough to have always had money to spend, but it often ends up sitting in the bank, unused. It’s not that I don’t know what I want or need to spend it on – for a geek, I have remarkably few shiny gadgets – but [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 17 June 2011 | 1:58 pm
Top 10 Things Not To Do with Links
"Hyperlinks" are probably the single most important thing on the World Wide Web. They are, affter all, what the "web" is woven from; they are what makes it something more than the document retrieval systems that came before. And yet, some people seem to do their utmost to make all the hyperlinks in their documents entirely useless. Here are my Top 10 Things Not To Do with Links... [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 12 June 2011 | 8:06 pm