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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.