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I now have a home page over at the University of Bath, where I’m doing my PhD.

Note Jonathan Blow has said some truly embarrassing stuff since I made this post.

Read this recently.

Don’t think they thought this one through...

Having apparently abandoned former principles of simplicity and unintrusiveness, Google now punishes account holders by sticking coloured icons next to every Google search result and, worse, animating them on a mouse-over of the result.

This is a good paper but the choices of variable names are making me sad :( Ah well... at least sometimes variable names lead to happy consequences.

This is a bit of an old video (the “decade” in question is the one before this one) but you should still watch it.

This comic has been pinned up in my lab for a while, I love it.

Well, I figured it out, so I thought I’d post it.

Oh, man.

I can’t help seeing this image like this — a lone protestor doing something crazy and anarchistic surrounded by a semicircle of a hundred professional cameras — and wondering if this is anything like good journalism.

Oh god, I’m going to talk about maths for a bit.

The Guardian reports: The Strasbourg court ruled it was unlawful for police to use the powers, under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, to stop and search people without needing any grounds for suspicion.

At least Clinton Cards now caters to the more Oedipal members of society.

This is old, but it’s still absolutely fantastic.

I just gotta say...

In follow up to my previous post.

I just watched the compelling documentary Taking Liberties, which prompted me to finally send my complaint to the IPCC, and finish off this draft.

Aw man.

Edit 2026-07-19 As I’ve said, this represents things I was doing before my prefrontal cortex finished developing.

Edit 2023-07-24 I’m including this post here so I can link to it.

Step 1: Pick any British politician from any party.

Over the last few days there’ve been a number of occasions when I’ve thought about something, and then thought “I wanna write something about this, but it’s too long to sum up in 140 characters”.