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2008

Does Facebook Feel Safer than the Internet?
It's not like it's magic or anything
Facebook Connect
Titling Myself into Oblivion
Creativity and what to Focus On
On the Intelligent Life
4OD and VMWare 2
Meaning of Life
Gardening
Firefox to Chrome Makeover
Five Details of Google Chrome You May Have Missed
Installing ganglia-3.1.1 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron
My Top Five Technology Blogs
The Cotswolds
Vicious Circle of Writing
Losing Data
Grammatical Misunderstandings in the Bathroom and Computer Language Comprehension
Eerily, Horribly Familiar
Problems with God (, RubyInline and Rails)
Some Critique of The Long Tail
How the Internet is Shaping our Thoughts
Seattle Trip Photos
A Rose and A Yellow Something
Dot to Dot Festival 2008
A Rewarding Film Night
Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the HP Compaq 8510w
Two Quirks of Our Flat
The Background Hum of Friends
Guess what I've been up to
To Seattle for Work and Play
Solutions to Problems I Encountered Upgrading to Hardy Heron Beta
Hubs and short messages are the future
Moving beyond the walled-garden mindset
Self-Disclosure as Trust Builder on the Internet
Ladybird Invasion
The New Flat
When Sites Collide
dx13 is dead, long live dx13!
Stage Two Complete
Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Query Caching
iSync and w910i - Howto
Stage One Complete
Back in my Hands
FizzBuzz and I Feel a Little Smug
Using acts_as_sphinx with will_paginate in Rails
The Best Feature of the Upcoming Firefox 3
Shortening Code with Ruby and Rails
Apple's Rental Offering is Go (in US, at least)
Responsibilities in using data about your friends
Routing in Ruby on Rails
Apple Online Store has Real People to Help You
Digital Certificates for Government Services? (Pah)
Ten of my most used Mac applications

2007

Film Rentals from iTunes on the Horizon
Upping Antes
Form Feeding Function
Untethering the MacBook
Forwarding Sound and Control from Mac to Mac
My Flickr photos are now Creative Commons Licenced
Accounts, passwords, usernames... will it end?
Rails Frontend, Plain Ruby Backend using ActiveRecord and Friends
Introducing New Music
Buying Digital Music Online
Facebook's Bland Face
Bookmark Sharing and Music
Beautiful Software
Another New Face
Tohoku and Hokkaido
Japan; Oh, the food, the food!
The First Days in Tokyo
Back from Japan
Tripping to Japan
Reflections on Ahmadinejad's talk to Columbia University
The BusyBox Case
TED - Inspiring Talks from Exciting Thinkers
Yum (Unwarranted Food Exploitation)
More About Vista's Arbitrary Disabling of Features
Magic Seven and Code Understanding
On No-longer being a Software Pirate
Minimal Site Synchronisation using Changesets
Andalucía
A Holiday in Spain
Transforming Arrays with Generics
Some Hard Data on Code Readability
Interacting via the Keyboard, and why it may be Firefox's Biggest Differentiator
Universal's Big Mistake, Thumbing Their Nose to Apple
The Invasion of Iraq, As Expressed in Code
Nine Circles of Hell and Web Services
The Peacock
More From The Lovely Catholic Church
My thoughts on Leopard
The UK's Science Teaching Farce
Pictures of the Flat and Templating Engines
Programs will Return
A New Face and Personality (Hello Ruby)
The View from Melrose Place at Night
New Abode, Second Day
One's Own Home (Almost)
Slight Improvement
On Being an Atheist
Apple and EMI's Interesting Announcement
Concurrency - New Frontier?
Link Blog 4th March 07
471 - An-Idea-For-Those-DRM-Junkies
472 - Steve-Jobs-on-DRM
470 - Intresting-things-I-cannot-Add-To
469 - Microsoft-Reply-to-vista_cost
468 - A-Generous-Offer
467 - What-Lies-Ahead
466 - Microsoft-Try-Design-(I-Hope)
465 - What are you optimistic about?

2006

464 - More-DRM-Joy-and-Logic
463 - Upon-Reflection
462 - Photos-and-Rails
461 - Crypto-schmypto
460 - Paris
459 - As-it-Stands
458 - Quick-Update-on-Abortion-in-South-Dakota
457 - The-Right-For-Abortion-Should-Be-Sacred
456 - Security-Is-Currently-Insanity
455 - The-Best-Gig-I--8217-ve-Ever-Been-To
454 - Tea-and-Sorrow
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452 - No-Longer-a-Wikipedia-Virgin
451 - On-Who-Benefits-from-DRM
450 - Visual-Studio-Isn--8217-t-Great
449 - Spam-Overwhelming-A-Bit
448 - Why-DRM-Currently-Is-Broken
447 - Stuck-Inside-the-House
446 - First-few-days-with-the-Mac
445 - Trying-out-an-Apple
444 - Photolinking-from-Flock
443 - This-Bug-Needs-You
442 - Why-the-Toothpaste-is-Minty-One-
441 - Little-Bits-of-Things-that-are-Cool-(To-Me)
440 - SiteAdvisor-Bought
439 - Wide-Screens-and-Vertical-Taskbars
438 - Why-Mint-Flavoured-Toothpaste-
437 - A-Bit-About-Sleeping
436 - Enabling-MP3-Encoding-on-Ubuntu-Dapper
435 - Another--Thoughts-on-Music-
434 - Some-Album-Listening-Thoughts
433 - The-98--2--Email
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430 - 2005-Music--A-Correction
429 - SiteAdvisor

2005

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425 - Gentoo-to-Ubuntu
424 - Another-IE-Hole
423 - Sony-Music-Is-Evil
422 - Installing-Wireless-Network-Cards-in-XP
421 - Friendly-Software
420 - A-rant-on--it--8217-s-not-complicated-
419 - More-Bluefunk
418 - Lowlands-2005
417 - Moving-House
416 - Open-Document-Formats
415 - Jobs--Jobs--Jobs
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412 - Backpack-pages-for-Bluefunk-and-Feedfunk
411 - Blake-Ross-Knows-Where-It--8217-s-At
410 - Duckin--8217--and-Divin--8217-
409 - Google-Maps-Arrives
408 - IE7-stuff
407 - Call-for-Project-Testers
406 - Project-Progress--Scale-Down-O--8217-Clock
405 - Perhaps-I-Shall-Call
404 - The-University-Project
403 - Mono--Bluefunk--Plugins-and-a-Mystery-Project
402 - Save-the-W0r1d-
401 - Beagle--Bluefunk-and-Plugin-Systems
400 - Sticking-With-C-
399 - Bluefunk-0-1-Released
398 - The-MVC-of-Web-Page-Design
397 - Exams-Are-Over-
396 - Goodbye--fair-hand
395 - My-GA--8217-s-GP--8217-s-TSSs
394 - More-Identifiable-Email
393 - A-Rude-Awakening-
392 - Bluefunk-Page-Up--May-Go-Ruby
391 - One-More-Down
390 - So--Apparently--I--8217-m-A-Communist
388 - For-All-The-Lazy-People
389 - New-Year--8217-s-Eve

2004

387 - So-So-So-So-So-Tempting
385 - Well--Blow-Me-Down
386 - Marry-Me--Oh-SMS
384 - For-Those-RSS-Junkies
383 - Bluefunk--Not-Actually-Muine
382 - Are-We-Not-Legends--No--Go-Away
381 - Merely-Busy
379 - For-The-Curious---
380 - Hell-Yeah--Lowlands
378 - Crossed-Fingers--All---
377 - The-Whys-Of-Disappointment
376 - Oh-Well
374 - Gmail-Bug--Very-Bad
375 - Windows-for-Cashpoints--Sucky-As-Hell
372 - More-Randoms
373 - John-Peel--He-Will-Be-Missed
371 - Bluefunk-in-CVS
369 - bluefunk-of-sf-net
370 - Regina-Spektor-desire
368 - Crossing-of-Fingers
367 - bluefunkyness
366 - Firefox---Good-----Great
365 - Google-on-the-Desktop
363 - bluefunkyness
362 - Post-For-The-Camera-Shy
360 - bluefunkyness
361 - A-Sense-of-Irony-Ensued
359 - Updationary-Informing
358 - Bad-Things--tear-
357 - Xorg-Eye-Candy--We-Like
356 - bluefunk-Quick-Status
355 - Muchos-Spamos
354 - Crazy-Mad-DRM-(More-Logical-Is-Paranoia)
353 - Why-is-MS-so-scared-of-Linux-
352 - bluefunk-status--nicer-code-abounds
351 - --8217-He--8217-s-just-sleeping--8217-
350 - PJ-Harvey--People--Indeed
349 - bluefunkyness
347 - Old-Skool
348 - Simple-vs-Neat
346 - You-Have-Unused-Icons
345 - No-More-Noise
344 - Stupid-System-Tray-Icon-Rant
343 - Program-Updates
342 - An-Application-(COAB---in-joke--sorry-)
341 - Linux-Rocks--Tell-me-something-new-
339 - Sales-Madness-
340 - A-Passing-in-the-Disks
338 - Source-Code-a-k-a-Useful
337 - The-Holland-Trip
336 - Refactoring-Top-Seven-(My-Personal)
335 - Spam--Instinct-Nearly-Leads-To-Error
334 - Fireballs-Of-A-Daring-Nature
333 - Online-Banking-And-My-Fortune
332 - Set-up-of-iPod-Mini-in-Linux
331 - J--8217-ai-une-iPod-Mini
330 - So--To-Avert-A-Disruption---
329 - On-The-Eating-of-Hats
327 - More-Comments-Features--And-So-On
328 - Add-Remove-Programs--8217--Size--It--8217-s-All-Ju
325 - Icons--Or-Stay-Sans-Images-
326 - It--8217-s-Genius-I-Tell-You--Genius
324 - StarOffice-Adverts--ehm--Memorable
323 - Design-Absent-Without-Leave
320 - IIS-IE-Rant--More-Calm
321 - CERT-Recommends-Switching-Browser
322 - Blog-Comments-Added
319 - To-Hell-With-Bad-Browsers-(and-Their-Users)
318 - I-Could-Care-Less--WTF--
317 - Java--it's-More-Powerful-Than-I-Thought
316 - On-Vi--And-Why-I-Like-It
313 - She-Appears-at-the-Door
314 - It-Would-Appear--Not-a-Dream
315 - Congrats-to-Scidd0w--Wendy-and-Country--)
312 - IDEs-and-Vi
311 - An-Explaination-and--in-Addition--a-Worry
310 - Romanticising-in-and-around-one's-workplace
308 - Kernel-Sources-Take-Up-Lots-Of-Space-Shocker
309 - Gmail
307 - Epiphany-vs-Firefox--current-status
306 - Firefox-and-Ephiphany
305 - Well--duh-
304 - Web-Standards-and-Reality
303 - Linux-2-6-Kernel-Impressions
302 - Another-design
301 - udev---good--devfs---bad
300 - Strange-things-in-the-Street
299 - More-Spatial--Applications
298 - Hello-Kitty-Stalinised
297 - A-test-post-for-blog-titles
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