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2022 1

  1. Kate Clanchy & the Social Justice Bastards

2021 1

  1. Social "Justice" at Smith College

2019 1

  1. More on drawing sprites on the ZX Spectrum

2018 1

  1. High speed full-screen drawing on the ZX Spectrum

2017 3

  1. Retro-programming: an High-Level Byte-Code for 8-bit CPUs
  2. Paul Graham's "What you can't say"
  3. Renewables, sigh...

2016 5

  1. Od -- it's like Mithril and Knockout, but better
  2. Typescript beautiful face of ugly
  3. On Python (vulgar, but funny)
  4. OO is Embarrassing
  5. Wonderful explanation of quantum weirdness

2015 2

  1. Faster Sprites on the ZX Spectrum
  2. Simulating any biased coin with a fair coin

2014 3

  1. Rawb - efficient Knockout-friendly web controls
  2. Spanner released
  3. Ahh, JavaScript, how I loathe thee.

2013 5

  1. How to find the parameter names of a C# lamba
  2. Spanner is released!
  3. A taste of Spanner
  4. Damn you, C# !
  5. Spolsky nails it

2012 2

  1. LinqPad
  2. SQL in One Page (or thereabouts)

2011 9

  1. SnippetCompiler
  2. The Birthday "Paradox" and Guid Collisions
  3. Robustness of the thermometer record
  4. Climate Model Accuracy on Absolute Temperature
  5. Adding Files Etc. as "Resources" to Visual Studio Projects
  6. Regular Expressions and State Machines
  7. Bayes' Theorem
  8. Radiation
  9. Debugging WCF

2010 40

  1. Mark Twain
  2. .NET: IEnumerable is *not* lazy
  3. WPF: Making ListBoxItems stretch the width of the ListBox
  4. How to Make Visual Studio Really, Really Responsive
  5. Configuring Visual Studio 2010's Tooltip Colours
  6. Excellent C# Resource
  7. Making things stretch in WPF
  8. Synchronization in .NET: ManualResetEvents and Monitors
  9. State Machine Compiler
  10. Trouble with nulls
  11. Equality in C#
  12. WPF and XAML
  13. PowerTab for PowerShell
  14. Dates and Times and Timezones and .NET
  15. DNS Problems with Blizzard's StarCraft II Patch Installer
  16. Changing Jobs!
  17. Searle on Deconstructionism
  18. A marvellous crytpic crossword clue
  19. C# Namespaces
  20. WotD: tropology and tropometer
  21. WotD: ambry and ambsace
  22. False positives
  23. Covariance and Contravariance
  24. Ugly Betty - Nooooooooo!
  25. My First StarCraft On-line Win!
  26. Extended C type generator tools
  27. Tool for generating algebraic types in C
  28. The anomaly method and UHI
  29. Grammar
  30. Cute "proof" of Pythagoras' theorem
  31. A roguelike I can enjoy
  32. Latin phrases
  33. Probability
  34. Nuclear Power and Sustainability
  35. Global temperature reconstructions
  36. Homeopathic dilutions
  37. Handy WPF Tutorial
  38. I dearly love the English language
  39. Gnu readline wrapper
  40. British Isles Snowbound

2009 30

  1. Aikido
  2. An interesting discussion
  3. Scientific integrity
  4. Corruption of the scientific process
  5. The Coloured Stamps Problem
  6. The Coloured Hats Problem
  7. The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
  8. Tents puzzle google gadget
  9. Watchmen
  10. Fillomino puzzles
  11. Google Wave
  12. Ive just come across asciimathml
  13. Solar power
  14. Sleep habits
  15. Scientific discourse and the climate debate
  16. ICFP Contest 2009
  17. JavaScript: DOM quick reference
  18. Google Pages is migrating to Google Sites
  19. Variable capture in C# closures
  20. Plants vs Zombies
  21. Coin tossing problem
  22. Play by web board games
  23. Escaping code symbols in blog postings
  24. Me punting on cam in 2008
  25. WPF: StackPanel vs DockPanel and ScrollViewer
  26. JavaScript
  27. Build your own HTPC/media centre
  28. Visual Studio Shortcuts
  29. Ive been spending some time learning c
  30. It's been a while

2005 2

  1. Blackbelt
  2. Claire, Jill, Fergus, Rulande, and more aikido

2004 1

  1. I declare this blog open