May 2012
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Voting Time Again
Time to hit the polling booths again. Doesn’t seem that long since the last one. But it’s a lot easier to decide this time. Brian Paddick’s a decent guy, but the Lib Dems have shown they can’t be trusted over the last two years.
Boris hasn’t been quite the disaster we feared four years ago, but he still cares more about the richer members of society than everyone...
March 2012
3 posts
5 tags
Weird Law-Enforcement Things
There were three slightly weird law-enforcement- or intelligence-related stories in the news today:
Two jailed in Northern Ireland over police officer’s murder.
I heard the policeman’s wife on the radio. She spoke calmly about how getting the murderers off the streets was good for the community, and positively about the people who had bravely given evidence (at least one had to be...
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff
> …potential readers are still coming to the genre. Books aren’t the entry drug any more. Books are the hard stuff, the crystal meth of genre.
Ian McDonald speaks wisely.
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Paul Weller in "Good Album" Shock!
Who would have thought, this many years after The Jam, that Paul Weller could still make a decent album? Yet that’s exactly what he’s done. You can listen to it at The Quietus, an online music magazine.
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December 2010
2 posts
Scrivener 2.0: My month-long test drive | Jamie... →
Socialite - All your social networks in one... →
Everything social and feedy in one app. Cheap, too.
October 2010
2 posts
Time Machine & Network Drive. | Lone Gunman →
Gregable.: Why you should know just a little Awk →
Awk looks easier and more useful (for text-file manipulation) than I could ever have imagined.
September 2010
7 posts
PasswordMaker →
Thing for generating secure passwords, based on a master password and (usually) URL components.
CycleStreets » Cycle journey planner » Powerscroft... →
Interesting route home to work. Saving it here in case it generates a different route the next time I go there.
Wiring Java Applications with Spring —... →
daoexamples - Related information →
Could be useful in getting our data access into some kind of sanity.
Advanced DAO programming →
I think I need to read this.
Ginger's Bread - Ginger’s Bread – 143 →
Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell... →
How good scripts get turned into bad movies.
May 2010
5 posts
Guardian Weekend short story competition | Books |... →
Singularity Magazine →
Richard (Rick) Findlay (from A215 & A363)’s new mag, due to launch in July, I believe.
Kurt Vonnegut - Eight rules for writing fiction -... →
William Shunn : Manuscript Format : Short Story →
How to format a manuscript.
Guidelines | Redstone Science Fiction →
Another new SF magazine. Hooray!
September 2009
13 posts
Southpaw Journal - Submission Guidelines →
An online literary magazine with an anit-SF bent. Still, you can’t have too many possible markets.
New Scientist: Flash fiction competition 2009 - 16... →
New Scientist flash-fiction comp. Closing 2009-10-15
Submissions | Crossed Genres →
SF crossed with the genre of the month.
The danger of strangers on the internet →
Ha!
BBC sports blueprint →
CeciliaTan.com →
This is something very like how I’d like my front page to look. Only she uses an imagemap.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English... →
I’m sure I’ve already got this boomark somewhere now.
EUSci – The Edinburgh University Science Magazine... →
SF short-story competition with an Edinburgh theme or link. For 1st Feb 2010.
How to Organize Your WordPress Blogroll Links? →
eMusic Download Manager incompatible with iTunes... →
Fix for problem with eMusic Download Manager and iTunes 9. But I’m not sure about actually using the settings it suggests.
10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for... →
Some useful stuff in here, especially about selecting and excluding categories.
Full Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer » BSCreview →
8 Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts – Make Tech... →
August 2009
6 posts
Girl Genius Online Comics! →
More webcomics (this one a recent Hugo winner) *sigh*.
Pure Digital Evoke Flow internet radio • Register... →
Stross-recommended DAB/FM/WiFi radio.
Glipper - clipboard manager for GNOME →
Glipper is a clipboardmanager for GNOME
Mocks Aren't Stubs →
Article on testing, by Martin Fowler.
Scary Go Round :: Mo/Tu/Th/Fr Comic by John... →
More webcomics. This one’s British, unusually.
Scary Go Round :: Mo/Tu/Th/Fr Comic by John... →
More webcomics. This one’s British, unusually.
July 2009
9 posts
8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast | News |... →
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing →
Shared online documents in realtime, they claim.
girls with slingshots →
Simplenote →
This is the notes app that syncs with the iPhone
Some useful info about charset encoding in XHTML... →
But it’s worse than that. Now character encoding information can be in two places: within the XML document itself, and within the Content-Type HTTP header. If the information is in both places, which…
PC Pro: Product Reviews: LaCie d2 Network (1TB) →
LaCie d2 Network (1TB)
PC Pro: Product Reviews: QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS →
QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS
LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Write Your Own Linux... →
Could be a useful way to learn Python.
Big Mouth Strikes Again | Arts and Culture |... →
June 2009
9 posts
Steven Wells Says Goodbye | In Extremis | News and... →
Swells’s last column.
Great hotel, friendly staff, excellent location -... →
This is the place we’re staying in for first three nights in Venice.