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13th December 2019
How not to stop Brexit
29th October 2018
Which .NET IOC containers pass Microsoft’s tests?
27th November 2015
“I’ve never had a problem with it.”
30th October 2014
“That’s just your opinion” means “I’m not listening”
11th June 2010
The meaning of football
2nd February 2010
Are deletionists harming Wikipedia?
5th June 2009
Keyboard switching in IE8 is insane
18th January 2009
Commercial flights are twenty-five times safer than private jets
5th December 2008
Do antivirus scans really need to brick your computer?
27th September 2008
Why Stack Overflow’s reputation system is broken
6th August 2008
Don't stuff beans up your nose
9th July 2008
What are valid reasons for hating a programming language?
4th June 2008
The Church needs Creative Commons
12th April 2008
Trying out speech recognition in Windows Vista
3rd March 2008
Derailed
17th December 2007
Making the "zoom" slider on the Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard do something useful
26th November 2007
Is it time to kill off wikitext?
12th November 2007
Procedural programming != functional programming
9th November 2007
Sorry, but who are you?
8th November 2007
Can we live without Wikipedia?
17th October 2007
Make way for your MP
12th October 2007
Is your rudeness necessary?
11th October 2007
On ties
4th October 2007
The future of my blog
Is there a future for Rails?
20th September 2007
Where has all the disk space gone?
13th August 2007
Selling domain names
8th August 2007
Yes, but what is the point of it?
23rd July 2007
Does the keyboard have a future?
30th June 2007
Another day, another OS reinstallation
29th June 2007
Case sensitivity is evil, but we still have to live with it
21st May 2007
.NET by day, Rails by night
28th April 2007
How to report issues with WordPress plugins
22nd March 2007
Whither blog?
15th March 2007
April MiniBar with Mark Shuttleworth
16th February 2007
Dave 2.0
12th February 2007
Learning Rails
10th February 2007
On the rails
8th February 2007
Yes, it’s been snowing
7th February 2007
Bitten by PHP 4’s pass by value semantics
25th January 2007
Improving Akismet
9th December 2006
Firefox usage by country: the browser wars are back
26th November 2006
Pastors: get blogging!
22nd November 2006
WordPress not notable?!!?
28th October 2006
Verrückte Idee vom Tage: die Deutschkentnisse mit Wikipedie verbessern
20th October 2006
The squawl^H^H^H^H^H^Hskirl of the pipes…
25th September 2006
The ultimate designer cat
15th August 2006
Windows Live Writer
28th July 2006
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
12th July 2006
Ban Comic Sans
18th May 2006
Errors in Wikipedia Considered Harmful
20th April 2006
Eolas v Microsoft and FlashObject (continued)
29th March 2006
Will Ruby on Rails kill .net and Java?
26th January 2006
MSN Spaces not working in Firefox?
22nd January 2006
Root canal torture again
1st November 2005
The ongoing saga of my teeth
10th October 2005
Chain letters and hoax e-mails
3rd October 2005
RSS? Why bother?
14th September 2005
Armchair physics!
9th August 2005
Quote of the day…
6th July 2005
It’s London!
28th June 2005
Impenetrable Packaging of the Year Award
19th June 2005
Beeping Watch!
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