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  • 2013
    • May
      • 6th
        • The 3D printed gun is the fast-track to the transparent society
    • April
      • 21st
        • Samsung UE40F7000 Notes
    • February
      • 6th
        • US Drone Base Conspiracy
  • 2012
    • June
      • 9th
        • S-Notes on the S-Samsung S-Galaxy S3
    • May
      • 13th
        • Digikam performance: put thumbnails database on an SSD
    • March
      • 24th
        • Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 notes
      • 11th
        • Some Ubuntu data points
    • January
      • 12th
        • Bitcoin: 285 bytes that changed the world
  • 2011
    • August
      • 6th
        • Disaster recovery from ephemeral datastores
    • July
      • 31st
        • Back to Ubuntu
      • 23rd
        • Co-opting advertising for steganographic purposes
    • June
      • 5th
        • Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
    • April
      • 13th
        • Efficient logging using Django and Apache
      • 9th
        • Rio: The Movie
    • March
      • 26th
        • Random inaccuracy in Google Latitude
      • 22nd
        • Worse than worst
        • Datetimes in naïve cameras
        • Built-in version control in Windows 8
        • Body Clock
      • 19th
        • Clock drift on Amazon EC2
      • 5th
        • British Passport Application
    • February
      • 17th
        • Celebrity Masterchef Junior Australia: The Professionals
      • 12th
        • Just checking: software is still awful
    • January
      • 30th
        • The Litterer Strikes Again
      • 22nd
        • How to get the Gobble Gobble achievement in GTA4
      • 9th
        • Lazy years
      • 8th
        • Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000: function keys won't work
  • 2010
    • December
      • 23rd
        • Bioshock
    • November
      • 13th
        • Never use regular expressions to enforce type
        • Chinese Remainder Theorem
    • October
      • 30th
        • Amazon EC2 reserved instances are not worth it
      • 24th
        • On Priorities
        • Home Taping
        • Further thoughts on the HTC Desire
      • 23rd
        • Great Scott
      • 7th
        • How to sum the size of selected files
    • September
      • 22nd
        • It's Never Easy
      • 18th
        • RIP Cuil
      • 4th
        • Using Amazon EC2 in the UK
    • July
      • 28th
        • Taste, Intelligence and Boredom
      • 27th
        • Decision 2010: iPhone 4 vs HTC Desire
    • June
      • 29th
        • Face recognition login in Windows 8
      • 5th
        • FlashForward
        • The SAS Base Certification Exam
    • May
      • 25th
        • Withdrawal
      • 17th
        • Appreciating Openness
      • 5th
        • Conversation models
    • April
      • 27th
        • The BNP is not a hate party
      • 24th
        • Notes from recent system dev
      • 14th
        • Random error
      • 9th
        • The Abbatoir
      • 7th
        • How to get free petrol from supermarkets
      • 6th
        • Credit Card Illuminati
    • March
      • 13th
        • 100Gbps fiber considered harmful
        • How to not get hired for a web job
    • January
      • 27th
        • Avatar: Aliens vs Titanic for real
      • 13th
        • IT infrastructure will be outsourced to employees
  • 2009
    • December
      • 31st
        • AЯMA☭EDDOИ
      • 29th
        • Candy GOC58F
      • 13th
        • Outline of a content-aware compression scheme
        • Missing log files on Dreamhost
    • November
      • 29th
        • Some SQL
      • 21st
        • Tarka dall
      • 15th
        • A life of music
      • 5th
        • Poking pivot tables
    • October
      • 30th
        • Playing Excel
      • 24th
        • A note on migrating from Wordpress to Django
        • Virgin Media Advanced Network Error Search
      • 17th
        • Condescending digital photography workflow tips
        • Gmail vs Email
        • Top n demoscene tracks
        • Screenshot licensing
        • On naming mp3s
        • Juno, Balls of Fury, and the Camp Quality Curve
        • Getting Things Tidy with yearly folders
        • Ghost neighbourhood
        • Using email filters properly
        • NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRD
        • Quick review of the state of web photo sharing
        • Matter
    • September
      • 30th
        • SAS lock-in
      • 13th
        • Product Placement
      • 8th
        • Stupid adverts
      • 5th
        • Frijj Cookie Dough Milkshakes
    • August
      • 16th
        • Things that are so brilliant we barely notice them
    • July
      • 12th
        • GiBs and GBs, TiBs and TBs
        • On the KDE to Gnome migration
      • 4th
        • New Google Search Results Layout
    • June
      • 15th
        • Recession is planned
      • 12th
        • Buying a house for the first time
    • May
      • 21st
        • Data point
      • 19th
        • Bughunt
        • The telephone revolution
      • 12th
        • Thief 4 and Deus Ex 3 in development
      • 6th
        • Unlimited star
      • 5th
        • RIP Fravia
      • 4th
        • Swine flu insurance
    • April
      • 25th
        • Irony
        • Geocities: 1994-2009
      • 21st
        • Mainframes, IBM, Microsoft and Google
      • 5th
        • Garage in constant use.
        • 4given
      • 4th
        • Fridge
    • March
      • 28th
        • Babingatron
      • 11th
        • The beautiful game
    • February
      • 28th
        • How normal people browse the internet
      • 26th
        • Baby rental
        • Kubuntu is so bad it broke my monitor
      • 13th
        • Please help me find an uninsured driver
      • 5th
        • Installing Python at work
    • January
      • 25th
        • Using xine to convert mods
        • Laserdisc: 1978-2009?
  • 2008
    • December
      • 20th
        • Northern Lights
      • 9th
        • Mini-reviews returns
    • November
      • 30th
        • The pub in the Wonderful Christmastime video
      • 23rd
        • VAT cut will be a mini-Y2K
      • 9th
        • RSA secret key challenges discontinued!
      • 5th
        • Quantum of Solace geek notes
        • Historic week
    • October
      • 25th
        • SSDs an end to disk thrashing?
    • September
      • 18th
        • Dreamhost backup + rsync
      • 17th
        • Lloydsifax TSBOS
      • 5th
        • KDE 4 is almost there!
      • 2nd
        • Google Chrome
    • August
      • 31st
        • Die spammers die
      • 7th
        • Thailand's GTA IV ban
      • 5th
        • Programmer-archaeologists
        • Using email filters properly
      • 3rd
        • Perfectionism
        • AIbortion
    • July
      • 27th
        • My Amiga is alive!
      • 14th
        • Windows XP will live forever
      • 9th
        • Rdiff-backup and duplicity
    • June
      • 30th
        • English GCSE
      • 3rd
        • Theme Park was years ahead of its time
        • You're fired
    • May
      • 29th
        • Why fonts should be like Wikipedia
      • 20th
        • Fire and Ice
        • Being forced off Free software
      • 11th
        • Comparing JPEGs
    • April
      • 24th
        • Dark Season
      • 20th
        • Milkybar White Moments
      • 13th
        • War machine
      • 7th
        • Genocide by default
    • February
      • 28th
        • KDE vs GNOME
      • 27th
        • Model number bling
        • L2 cache
      • 26th
        • 10 years of lynz
      • 25th
        • Barack Obama vs Hillary Clinton
      • 22nd
        • Phun is amazing
      • 19th
        • RIP HD-DVD
        • Ron Paul won Nevada
      • 18th
        • 3 Mobile Mail
      • 17th
        • Kosovo declares independence
      • 15th
        • FCrackZip
        • Out With A Bang Foundation
      • 12th
        • Gmail's dot-ignorance
      • 7th
        • Internet destruction for oil?
      • 1st
        • Fiction
        • Abusing archive.org for backup purposes
        • Amazon Associates
    • January
      • 31st
        • 1998-2008
      • 24th
        • "Not plagiarism, just illegal"
      • 22nd
        • Remember the LazyWeb?
      • 14th
        • Betterlympics
      • 11th
        • Binary stopgapping
      • 10th
        • Mini-tasers?
      • 7th
        • Social engineering Facebook
        • Direct debits are an exploit
        • Light at the end of the tunnel for stuttering GL Slideshow
      • 2nd
        • Hair
  • 2007
    • December
      • 21st
        • One Laptop Per Jock
      • 6th
        • Regarding the Wayback Machine
    • November
      • 26th
        • Free for now
      • 20th
        • HM Revenue and Customs leaks private data
      • 15th
        • Nokia maps
        • Audio end-game
      • 7th
        • SMS Export
    • October
      • 31st
        • Poverty is not a virtue
        • How to get the correct month name using PHP
      • 30th
        • Daylight Trading Time
        • Birthday Coordinates
      • 29th
        • Portents of a better future
      • 26th
        • Desktop special effects not so special
        • Chicago at the Pavillion
      • 25th
        • BBC 2D
      • 24th
        • Dreamhost nerf prompts emergency gallery
      • 23rd
        • Restoring KRename to d3lphin's Actions menu
      • 22nd
        • WMA vs MP3 vs Ogg
      • 17th
        • It's not my fault that I'm so heavy, it's society. Society.
      • 16th
        • Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
      • 15th
        • Your television is lying to you
      • 12th
        • Design Principles
        • Wordpress 2.3
      • 11th
        • The Wrong GUI
      • 10th
        • In Rainbows
      • 9th
        • Fantasy literature roundup
        • Superbad and Atonement
      • 5th
        • A mlog before an evening
        • One laptop per comrade
    • September
      • 29th
        • Fake Chinese Laptop
      • 27th
        • Robert Jordan killed by amyloidosis, Wheel of Time killed by CMF
      • 26th
        • Freedom Universal Keyboard
        • Dreamhosting
      • 21st
        • News of the World scumbaggery
        • Nokia N95
    • August
      • 28th
        • Installing Windows Vista
      • 25th
        • Cosma's Notebooks
      • 24th
        • Google Sky
        • Misinformation, onionism from Microsoft
      • 18th
        • Mario Galaxy
      • 15th
        • Silverstone and Donington
        • The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs, aged 13¾
      • 6th
        • Animal rights and animal responsibilities
        • KDE 4eva
      • 2nd
        • Rsync about
    • July
      • 27th
        • The Simpsons Movie and the phenomenon of the funny
      • 20th
        • Crooks and liars
      • 16th
        • Repugnant markets and cage fighting
      • 11th
        • OpenMoko
      • 4th
        • Why it's good to shop with idiots
      • 2nd
        • A new country: Africa
      • 1st
        • How to queue at Wimbledon
    • June
      • 26th
        • We're all busted
        • Shrek the Third, Sicko and Universal Healthcare
      • 19th
        • Won't somebody please think of the children?
        • Jihad
      • 18th
        • Back to the Future: The Ride: The Obituary
      • 12th
        • More gardening
        • Geek tragedy and website pensions
      • 4th
        • Houses of Parliament
      • 3rd
        • Old man dog
    • May
      • 28th
        • Jaws killed Christ
        • Pirates of the Caribbean 3
      • 22nd
        • Parasites or entrepreneurs?
      • 18th
        • The Baroque Cycle
        • Prejudice
        • Slow worm!
      • 16th
        • IPPA
      • 15th
        • Peak-oil salesmen
      • 14th
        • DDoSing Estonia
      • 11th
        • Psst, ID cards are a crock. Pass it on.
      • 10th
        • Antz is alright
      • 5th
        • Lucy II
        • Better than killing a pig
        • MTU setting
      • 2nd
        • More illegal art
    • April
      • 25th
        • Vote with your vote
      • 18th
        • Today is a good day to buy
      • 15th
        • Errorwiki
      • 13th
        • Pseudoscorpion in my bathroom
      • 11th
        • More on Wii Sports
        • SDHC
      • 9th
        • A regex for years
        • Chris Buckley!
    • February
      • 28th
        • I'm beginning to smell a big fat Commie rat
      • 21st
        • I found a Wii!
      • 6th
        • Openoffice still fails
    • January
      • 30th
        • Kaczynski's Kabin
      • 26th
        • The prison cockup
      • 25th
        • Google groups is out of beta
      • 19th
        • DHS and Fedex
      • 18th
        • Droogs
      • 13th
        • Pop rips off the demoscene
      • 5th
        • Racism and nationalism are the same thing
      • 1st
        • Wii's anti-HD revolution
        • The DVR of my life is recording Countdown
  • 2006
    • December
      • 20th
        • Does Scotland pay its own way?
        • Never buy anything from EPSON
      • 15th
        • Creating good oggs in KDE
      • 3rd
        • Join us now and free the software
        • Donate now!
      • 1st
        • Limited liability
        • The road to serfdom
    • November
      • 21st
        • Codex vs Crystal Maze
        • Adsense trial
        • The PS3 fails
        • 20 to life
      • 20th
        • Freedom vs freedom
        • Casino Royale geek notes
      • 16th
        • Morans
      • 15th
        • Welcome to Intex Systems
        • More RMS-bashing
      • 14th
        • Nine myths about capitalism
      • 13th
        • Error 402: Payment required
      • 12th
        • Dr Zaius Dr Zaius
        • Observations
        • The right to not be offended
      • 10th
        • George Bush Admits Demolitions?
      • 8th
        • Who won the war anyway?
    • October
      • 31st
        • Missing errata
      • 29th
        • The trainwreck industry
        • Old, busted.
      • 28th
        • A short attempt at installing Ubuntu 6.10
        • All the things I sed
      • 25th
        • The copyright deal
        • The Null Post, part 2
  • 2005
    • May
      • 1st
        • Normal service will resume shortly
    • March
      • 26th
        • Drug war tech race
      • 25th
        • Conservatards vs. Laboredom
      • 22nd
        • Review: Going Postal
      • 16th
        • The Pope would like a word with you
      • 11th
        • Polymorphing kittens
      • 9th
        • Brain sex
      • 2nd
        • Smokers ~= Criminals
    • February
      • 23rd
        • Mini-reviews of (not so) recent watchings
      • 21st
        • Genoism
      • 19th
        • "Bandle Bobble"?
      • 16th
        • Boa vs. Python
        • Einstein vs. Islam vs. Toilets
      • 15th
        • TV Tax
        • But wait... BBC forever!
      • 14th
        • Dell Madness
      • 13th
        • More Jaws!
      • 10th
        • How everything is made
        • Volunteers needed for medical research!
      • 2nd
        • Higher Education Awareness Day
      • 1st
        • Aliens vs. Titanic
    • January
      • 26th
        • EUeeeew
      • 12th
        • I'm evil? You're fired.
  • 2004
    • December
      • 18th
        • Immigrants vs. chemistry
      • 8th
        • Blunkett vs. The Church
      • 5th
        • Delisting
    • November
      • 21st
        • UK zombie panic 2004
      • 19th
        • The one you've all been waiting for: Reality TV
      • 18th
        • Tesco spam
      • 17th
        • Mathematics Defined
      • 16th
        • Mini-reviews of recent watchings
        • My lungs! The smoking ban - it does nothing!
      • 15th
        • *-bomber
      • 14th
        • The evil of borders
      • 12th
        • Intravenous gaming
      • 11th
        • Death by Logic
      • 10th
        • Must... protect... children!
        • Sim City: The C is for Communist!
      • 9th
        • Geography for Chefs
      • 7th
        • Slackers
      • 4th
        • China being clever again
      • 3rd
        • NHS + Microsoft = You're feeling safer already!
        • Windows XP is no longer viable
      • 2nd
        • Reason
      • 1st
        • US Election 2004
    • October
      • 30th
        • See it before the americans!
      • 29th
        • An evening with Iain M. Banks
      • 28th
        • Mini-reviews of recent watchings
      • 27th
        • Presenting your new reality
      • 26th
        • Legends dropping at alarming rate
      • 21st
        • Geometry renamed
      • 16th
        • More fear mongering
        • Brain Implants!
      • 15th
        • Cottage Cheese and Beetroot Sandwich Recipe
      • 6th
        • Drugs
      • 5th
        • Screen Select
      • 4th
        • Kes at the theatre
        • Get the hell outta my car, old man!
    • September
      • 21st
        • Outdoor Window
        • "Blair's a Fool"
        • Middle-Rusholme
        • Not Wanted
        • I love vodka
        • HHGttG: Tertiary Phase
      • 12th
        • World's greatest phone number
    • August
      • 29th
        • Oil prices versus geek superheroes
      • 25th
        • Scooter racing
      • 23rd
        • Demoscene tunes
        • The Man in the High Castle
    • June
      • 16th
        • Michael Schumacher is the greatest environmentalist of all time
      • 3rd
        • Pound World
      • 1st
        • Dell Inspiron 8000 long term review
        • BBC categories
        • $BlackadderJoke
    • May
      • 29th
        • Gimpshopping attempt #1
        • The Unabomber is a Mathematician
      • 22nd
        • True Wisdom
    • March
      • 31st
        • Lightning
      • 26th
        • Review: Dawn of the Dead
      • 24th
        • When 12-year-olds attack
      • 20th
        • Starsky and Hutch and ants
      • 16th
        • Amiga dies, again
      • 8th
        • LOTR DVD release timetable
      • 2nd
        • Do you like scary rocks?
    • February
      • 28th
        • Size down, dumb down?
      • 25th
        • TEH PASHION OF TEH CHRITS!!11!1
      • 24th
        • London == leftists?
      • 22nd
        • Sony vs. You
      • 18th
        • Coding vs. Gaming
      • 13th
        • Teengers: thieves, thieved
      • 9th
        • Landspeeder
        • Ministry of Scain
      • 8th
        • Number Theory Tools
      • 7th
        • Barbarian hordes swarming M14
        • Computerless computing
      • 4th
        • Hair Monster found in Mathspace
        • Steel enlightenment
      • 2nd
        • What does half a decade of email look like?
      • 1st
        • The Hitch-hikers guide to the Hutton Report
        • Property is theft
        • Iain M. Banks Culture megafanboi geekfest
        • Overexposure is great
    • January
      • 31st
        • Daily Mail World
      • 29th
        • Snowfight
      • 25th
        • Gawd-dayam scienticians wid' deir edumacation
      • 24th
        • Post 0x90 Spectacular
        • One-liners
      • 22nd
        • Labs in the news
      • 20th
        • Block an exit, go to jail
      • 19th
        • The value of comments
      • 16th
        • Adobe(R) Newspeak(R)
      • 15th
        • Keep flags off Mars!
      • 13th
        • Berlusconi rolls deep on everyone
        • Zucker Brothers Mazingness
        • Quote of the month
      • 11th
        • Dude, are you being sarcastic?
      • 9th
        • Search test
        • Hot Pixels
        • This is the corporate dream
        • The Eye of Bushron turns to Mars
      • 7th
        • Americans queue for 8 hours in Brazil
        • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
      • 6th
        • Student life can be hazardous to your health
      • 5th
        • Waves!
        • What we gonna do, when the money runs out?
        • Reviews! Reviews!
        • The filmworks gallery
        • Careless design: lamp
  • 2003
    • December
      • 21st
        • Reporting imitates Simpsons
      • 20th
        • Newtonmas
      • 18th
        • Frustration
      • 17th
        • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: The review
      • 15th
        • The labeling problem
      • 14th
        • Saddam Captured
      • 13th
        • The Natzional Trust's Quarry Bank Mill
        • Who cares?
      • 12th
        • Commercial bombardment: the solution
      • 11th
        • Music needs shooting
      • 4th
        • Red Dwarf not fountain of originality after all
    • November
      • 28th
        • Two fantastic ideas
      • 27th
        • The foundation columns of this building are just packed
      • 26th
        • I dislike it!
        • ObWaspFactory
      • 21st
        • Frijj Raspberry Doh'nut flavour milkshakes are disgusting
      • 19th
        • Stop Bush by... walking out of lessons?
        • Performance-enhancing exercise
        • Some feats aren't tough enough anymore
      • 17th
        • Won't somebody please think of Bush?
      • 16th
        • Hello!
      • 15th
        • Word groups closed under definition
      • 10th
        • Widget greatest invention in last 40 years
      • 8th
        • Annoying Two Towers DVD review
        • Swords on Ebay
        • Broken washing machine design
      • 5th
        • Praia do Forte
        • Burnt-out car
        • Cat + Bed
      • 2nd
        • Dog + Sea
      • 1st
        • BBC's Big Read
    • October
      • 26th
        • Terrorists travel on the Magic Bus
        • Big beige square
      • 25th
        • Reading backwards
      • 22nd
        • Catcher in the Rye
        • Last flight of Concorde
      • 21st
        • Overheard conversation
      • 20th
        • Course convergence
        • Circumstantial Evidence
      • 13th
        • The crushing sadness of Manchester's club lures
        • I hate you, Manchester NH
      • 12th
        • Review: Underworld (the film)
        • Review: Permutation City
        • Lessons learned when using Unicode with Python
        • Naming is owning
        • Rules for posting comments
      • 8th
        • Political analogy problem
      • 6th
        • Comments test page
      • 3rd
        • Unicode post. Please ignore.
      • 1st
        • Bell ringing
    • September
      • 27th
        • Type of the week
      • 26th
        • Badgers are cool
      • 25th
        • Still no net access in halls
        • Further Reading
      • 20th
        • Backtranslated Bond Titles
      • 18th
        • Nomic as Life
      • 16th
        • Why are there 24 hours in a day?
        • Spelling reform vs. syllabaries
      • 15th
        • Confess online!
        • In-vitro language surgery
        • Pirates!
      • 13th
        • Corcovado
        • Review: Dune
      • 11th
        • Further Reading
      • 10th
        • Dragging a sofa up the side of an apartment
      • 9th
        • Review: Velox
        • War: opportunity cost
      • 8th
        • Review: Girdle, Etcher, Bark: An Infernal Moudly Bread
        • Further Reading
      • 1st
        • Disturbing deductions about the US military
        • Moving house, moving access points
    • August
      • 29th
        • UTF-8
        • Rolling Deep
      • 28th
        • Further Reading
      • 27th
        • Lord of the Rings: The One With The Wedding
        • Around Rio
      • 26th
        • The Chess-Player's Handbook
        • Further Reading
      • 24th
        • BBC warez omg lol!!!1
      • 22nd
        • Veganism
      • 21st
        • XML RSS Button
      • 20th
        • Further Reading
      • 19th
        • Finding North
      • 18th
        • Love and Life Just Before the Singularity
      • 16th
        • Running two Linux systems on one machine
        • Amazon reviews of Godel, Escher, Bach
      • 14th
        • Fire Jugglers
        • Links
      • 13th
        • Things to do in Barra da Tijuca
        • First computer: Sinclair PC200
      • 12th
        • Google Calculator
        • Permalinks
        • 20 Questions
      • 11th
        • Clue: The Movie
      • 10th
        • When you're online, you're a superhuman
        • Mystery chemical reaction
        • The Psychology of the Unthinkable
        • Adam's Lynz
      • 9th
        • The Perfect Sentence
        • Terminator 3
        • This week oi arve bin...
        • AW523 - Space Warfare
        • Typo of the week
      • 4th
        • Life Ink Blot
        • Lucasarts Adventures
    • July
      • 31st
        • Switching from Galeon to Firebird
        • XPointer rethought-up
      • 30th
        • Worst Pun Ever
        • Today's reading theme: category theory
        • A good CS101 coursework task
      • 29th
        • Contact Me
        • By god CSS is manky
        • Hand drawn games
        • What did I do before this post?
      • 28th
        • Assorted thoughts from the last few months
      • 27th
        • Old Chemistry Set
        • Worst. Film. Synopsis. Ever.
        • Typo of the week
        • Fire XOR Cold patch for Nethack
      • 19th
        • Best Spam Title Ever
      • 17th
        • The Null Post

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