2014/12/27

"More perfect union?" by Alan Wilson

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This book is billed as being for people who want to align their heads with the directions their hearts have already taken on the issue of sa...
2014/11/12

God, Gender and the Bible by Deborah F. Sawyer

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I just finished reading God, Gender and the Bible by Deborah F. Sawyer , which I gave Bethan a few birthdays ago. It's a short but weigh...
2014/04/13

Mrs Tittlemouse is a short-sighted bourgeois reactionary

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Reading a story aloud every evening for months on end does strange things to your brain. Thus, after the third or fourth month of reading ...
2014/04/12

Heartbleed and the NSA: put your hand up if you've ever credited a responsible-disclosure vulnerability report to the NSA. Anybody? Anybody?

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Heartbleed is no doubt the worst security bug to hit the Internet in a very, very long time, and this comes hot on the heels of serious SSL ...
2014/03/24

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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So I was given this book as a present by my brother – thanks! – which presented a good opportunity to read a book I’d normally never pick up...
2014/02/10

Affine transform for rotating in place an A4 ratio (A3, A5, etc.) image for e.g. converting landscape to portrait

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I'm sure there's a better way of doing this with only one scale operation, but I don't know the maths. This took hours to find, ...
2013/11/14

The Armistice Centenary, War, and who we are.

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I recently read that David Cameron said that he wanted to see a 100th Armistice commemoration "that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrati...
2013/10/16

Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?

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Paranoia appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden. Absent from the stories so...
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2013/02/15

Spring 3.1+ Environment properties not being resolved when using dollar-notation placeholders in bean properties? Read this :-)

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So after spelunking through the Spring source, I found out that it was my fault, of course. Why: I needed a in my spring XML, even with n...
2012/12/02

Patterns of Refactored Agency: blogger compels me to post this as the keyboard beckons my fingertips...

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Patterns of Refactored Agency : Not that I agree with all of it, but it's a very interesting to apply the refactorings to various aspect...
2012/11/13

Napsterisation - how to educate the world? (for certian values of 'educate')

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Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky : "It’s been interesting watching [napsterisation] unfold in music, books, newspapers, T...
2012/11/09

New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic

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New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic : In this argument, what Carr termed ‘intellectual technologies’ in particular—map, cl...
2012/07/18

Three reviews of Pixar's Brave

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These links all contain spoilers. Ebert , The Guardian , and others will say this is Pixar being Disneyfied. But this post is not about t...
2012/07/02

Exit, Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman

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With a full title of "Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organisations and States", this is a fairly old (197...
2012/05/13

Seemingly within the realm of conspiracy theory, but:

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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed | News | The Week UK : "Typical was the headline on a short article that ran in...