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- Labyrinthitis comments, page 13
- Labyrinthitis comments, page 12
- Labyrinthitis comments, page 11
- Labyrinthitis comments, page 10
- Labyrinthitis comments, page 9
July 2007
April 2007
March 2007
- The relativity of simultaneity
- Spacetime and coordinates
- The Carnival of Software Development, number 3
February 2007
January 2007
- Hatchepsut
- Interacting causes and the collapse of states
- Simple “solutions”, complex failures
- The Eloquent Peasant
December 2006
- Rome and Assyria: Contrasting Imperialisms
- The Prehistory of Sharp Blue, part two
- The Carnival of Software Development, number 1
- The prehistory of Sharp Blue, part one
- Population filters; or The Wine Bar Drake Equation
- Heraclius, Persia and the Arab Conquests
- The Carnival of Software Development
- Ancient Egypt in ten paragraphs
November 2006
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March 2006
- Labyrinthitis comments, page 6
- The Pirenne Thesis and the End of Antiquity, Part I: Prelude
- Delighting users
- Sketch of a defence of history
February 2006
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January 2004
- Christopher Duncan Robert Baker (1945-2004)
- Renal failure
- Cord compression
- The dominance of Microsoft
December 2003
- From production to consumption
- Hypercalcemia revisited
- One Hundred Interesting Mathematical Calculations, Number N+1: Curvature and Polyhedra
- Slight mechanical failure
November 2003
October 2003
- String theory, aesthetics and experiment
- Home, sweet home
- Fire on Ward 61
- Two weeks
- One week
- No real change
- Days to weeks
- Hypercalcemia
September 2003
- Heaven’s Command
- Time dilation
- Translucent DNA databases
- MRI results: the turn of the tide
- Relativity, FTL and causality
- A week in Torquay
August 2003
- No better, but no worse
- Mapping Mars
- The first Ad Astra teaser
- A History of Medieval Europe
- Nuclear isomerism explosives
- The 47th Carnival of the Vanities
- The Later Roman Empire
- Terminator 3
- “Gramatical (sic) errors are relativly (sic) prevalent…”
- The cost of not owning a dishwasher
- Bits and pieces
July 2003
- Trilobite!
- Living at the fulcrum
- Transient ischaemic attack
- Hospitalisation
- Liberty and egality
- Mixed news
- The economics of interface transportation
- A man on the Moon
June 2003
May 2003
- Thalidomide
- The economics of space transportation
- Always waiting
- Side effects
- Asteroid sample return mission
- Reflections on the hunting of bugs
- Adaptation
April 2003
- Almost famous
- The art of shih
- Lost civilisations of the Stone Age
- Spend the night
- A concise history of the future
- Busy times
- Per ardua ad astra
March 2003
- Genes, Peoples and Languages
- Mutually assured destruction on the high frontier
- Project Orion
- Source tools
- A life in boxes
- The gradual removal of prejudices
- Interferon in the fridge
- European defence update
- The sweet smell of death
- Flamininus at Corinth
- Self-Injury Awareness Day
February 2003
- Blood tests
- Enemies at the gate
- The limits of utility
- Perceptual weirdness
- Redemption Ark
- CrowCon Bristol
- “Roger, splash one squirrel”
- Great Sky Tree
- Minor lapses in communication
- Legacy hardware
- Cathedrals and Shuttles
- Random acts of kindness
- Chasm City
- Medication
- No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die
- A choice of futures
- Bright Angel Falling
January 2003
- A lesson for us all
- Radiotherapy (redux)
- The Namespace Catastrophe
- Badly designed batteries
- Chasm City (so far)
- It’s always the last place you look
- This design has a philosophy?
- Context switches are bad
- Were the Flavians really that boring?
- Adventures in Oncology
- Hello World!
- ZEROTH ENTRY