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Category Archives: Memories

Virtual Reality

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

In 1992, a couple of years before the Web started to gain traction, Virtual Reality was the new hotness. I was a second year Engineering student, and encouraged the head of one of the research groups on campus to allow me and two fellow students to work on a VR project over the summer break [...]

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A Cunning Plan

Monday, October 18, 2010

Hmmm… eight days since my last post. Looks like I’ve fallen off the wagon. For a while there I actually had a backlog of half-a-dozen posts ready to be published, and it was great. Writing is like exercising; it’s hard to start, but it feels fantastic once you’ve built up a rhythm. Take this, then, [...]

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Looking Back

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

I clicked the Readability bookmarklet by accident when viewing my profile page on Twitter and was surprised to get a single, nicely formatted page of every tweet I’ve ever written (all 500-ish of them). I had fun taking a look back at the last 31 months. Here’s a selection. 2008 My next-door neighbours are involved [...]

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The Owls Are Not What They Seem

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

We’re watching Twin Peaks at the moment. Lain lent us the Gold Box Set, and Daz (brother number one) comes over each Tuesday night. He and I watched Twin Peaks when it first aired, in ’91 or ’92 or whenever it was. I’d “tape” it, using a “video recorder”, or we’d watch it live. We’d [...]

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Nazi

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Many years ago I was travelling with a girl, and we were on a bus in a fairly rough part of a neighbourhood in another city, and I saw a guy with a swastika tattoo on his arm. I nudged said girl and whispered “look, he’s got a swastiki”. She deadpanned back “you mean it’s [...]

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