Tony Finch – link log

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• 2003‑12‑18: Full-screen X display benchmarking.
• 2003‑12‑03: My old BBC BASIC V and ARM assembler implementation of the Game of Life.
• 2003‑12‑03: Real-life examples of apostrophe abuse.
• 2003‑12‑02: C coding guidelines for the free thinker.
• 2003‑11‑26: Antiword: a Microsoft Word file reader.
• 2003‑11‑26: Egg-breaking machines.
• 2003‑11‑20: The Finkelstein / Shattock report.
• 2003‑11‑19: The eight fallacies of distributed computing.
• 2003‑11‑17: Incompatibilities between C and C++.
• 2003‑11‑14: DAB and Linux.
• 2003‑11‑14: Animal noise onomatopoeia.
• 2003‑11‑14: Stream mp3s over ethernet to the SLIMP3 player.
• 2003‑11‑12: SMTP client for testing MTA configurations.
• 2003‑11‑06: International E-road network.
• 2003‑11‑06: The Art of Automounting.
• 2003‑11‑04: Unix incompatibility notes.
• 2003‑10‑29: The World Beard and Moustache Championships.
• 2003‑10‑22: Computer Science Unplugged.
• 2003‑10‑17: Silly London Underground maps.
• 2003‑10‑16: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
• 2003‑10‑15: Burnt-out UPS.
• 2003‑10‑15: The Barefoot Doctor gets a close examination.
• 2003‑09‑29: Dalek salt and pepper shakers.
• 2003‑09‑24: Peugeot 404 not found.
• 2003‑09‑23: Stack Computers: the new wave.
• 2003‑09‑15: Angle-Grinder Man.
• 2003‑09‑11: Some CompSci-ish quotations.
• 2003‑09‑11: TAI, UTC, GPS, aargh.
• 2003‑09‑11: Anti-Spam Research Group document tracking.
• 2003‑09‑09: Large efficient diesel ship engines.
• 2003‑09‑03: Magic Roundabouts.
• 2003‑08‑12: "The New C Standard" book review material.
• 2003‑08‑11: Live map of lightning in the British Isles.
• 2003‑08‑06: ShortTalk: Dictation Made Rewarding.
• 2003‑08‑05: Lithium-Ion battery FAQ.
• 2003‑07‑09: The Battle of Imjin River.
• 2003‑07‑04: Bell Labs and Hoare's CSP.
• 2003‑07‑03: Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy.
• 2003‑07‑03: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
• 2003‑07‑03: An excellent essay on group dynamics and social software.
• 2003‑07‑03: What does a GSR wish for?
• 2003‑07‑03: On the usable bandwidth of Ethernet.
• 2003‑07‑02: These weapons of mass destruction cannot be displayed.
• 2003‑07‑02: Martijn Bevelander is a spammer.
• 2003‑07‑01: Code bloat explored.
• 2003‑06‑30: Improved data mark-up languages.
• 2003‑06‑30: Books about climbing the buildings of Cambridge.
• 2003‑06‑17: The theology of The Market.
• 2003‑05‑21: The definition of "bikeshedding".
• 2003‑05‑20: First mention of the Central Registration Service?
• 2003‑05‑20: Clothes made out of duct tape.
• 2003‑05‑19: An example Computer Science Tripos examination paper.
• 2003‑05‑12: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival.
• 2003‑05‑12: How to construct a Limerick.
• 2003‑05‑08: Live video from a model rocket.
• 2003‑04‑28: The Lloyds Bank Turd.
• 2003‑04‑16: Translucent windows in X using OpenGL (like Mac OS X).
• 2003‑04‑06: History of computing at MIT.
• 2003‑03‑31: CVStrac: bug and patch-set tracking software.
• 2003‑03‑28: Cycling up-hill.
• 2003‑03‑28: The Garbage Collection Page.
• 2003‑03‑27: A brief history of spam.
• 2003‑03‑23: The Gulf War II Drinking Game.
• 2003‑03‑21: Patent-related subtleties of the GPL.
• 2003‑03‑19: The Striker Scenario.
• 2003‑03‑15: MHTML test messages.
• 2003‑03‑12: Some more RPM spec files: exim, adns, userv, secnet.
• 2003‑03‑12: A Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
• 2003‑03‑12: Another Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
• 2003‑03‑10: The Internet Health Report.
• 2003‑03‑10: Seeing capillary circulation in one's own retina.
• 2003‑03‑10: The Internet Storm Centre.
• 2003‑03‑09: Schott's Original Miscellany.
• 2003‑03‑07: USB toothbrush.
• 2003‑03‑07: Exim RPM spec.
• 2003‑03‑04: Bart's Internet punishment.
• 2003‑02‑28: All your base are belong to terrorist.
• 2003‑02‑20: Casting metal objects using a domestic microwave oven.
• 2003‑02‑13: The Unix Haters' archive.
• 2003‑02‑07: If you're happy and you know it, bomb Iraq.
• 2003‑02‑05: Spam is the same thing lots and lots of times.
• 2003‑02‑04: A call for the complete elimination of joke haiku production on the Internet.
• 2003‑02‑04: A glossary of typography.
• 2003‑01‑30: Photos at the top of the Telecom Tower in London.
• 2003‑01‑29: I do not like green cards and spam!
• 2003‑01‑28: Bedtime reading for George W. Bush.
• 2003‑01‑23: What does that sideways eight mean?
• 2003‑01‑21: A daemon made from balloons.
• 2003‑01‑15: A computer accessory for smokers.
• 2003‑01‑09: Entrances to Hell in the UK.
• 2003‑01‑07: Paul Graham's list of spam filters.
• 2003‑01‑07: SIMD within a register.
• 2003‑01‑07: Magic algorithms and bit-twiddling hacks from The Aggregate.
• 2003‑01‑07: Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
• 2003‑01‑06: On the design of display processors.
• 2003‑01‑06: Security problems associated with T/TCP.
• 2003‑01‑06: How to disappear in America without a trace.