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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Web; and a pretty big number of those URLs are either alternative names for something, or old locations that have been superseded.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 | 8:57 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 | 12:58 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 | 7:06 pm
“A Permanent Cleggocracy” – Or Not: Dissecting an Anti-AV Cartoon
This week, the first campaign leaflets started coming through for the Borough Council Elections, and, more interestingly, the voting system referendum. One of the Conservative "newsletters" featured this eye-catching cartoon, headlined "A.V. = A Permanent Cleggocracy". I was immediately sceptical, but the more I looked at it, the more I realised how utterly wrong this [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 9 April 2011 | 3:52 pm
Goodbye Burgess Hill!
After 5 years of the slow and often stressful commute, my office finally moves from Burgess Hill to Brighton this weekend.. So, it's Goodbye Burgess Hill! Goodbye to the 07:57 Southern Service to London Victoria — and goodbye to the crowded 08:18 when I missed it! Goodbye to "the delayed 18:09 service" home, and the [...] [ → Read Me ]
Posted on 28 January 2011 | 5:40 pm