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Continue reading →: ARFOE versus a DeLorean
I’m in a reflective mood. Perhaps it’s down to Back to the Future day, which I’ve spent marvelling at the thousands of hoverboards nobody has. More likely it’s because I finally finished the first draft of ARFOE not so long ago. Finishing a first draft is like riding a non-hovering…
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Continue reading →: Pride London 2015
It’s a few weeks ago now, but here are some photos I took during the Pride London march at the end of June. As last year I was walking with Families Together London, which supports the parents of LGBT children. Unlike last year, the sun came out. It’s my favourite day…
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Continue reading →: Cambridge Centre for Computing History
Today I spent a couple of hours at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, revisiting my youth. If you’re under forty these photos might not mean too much to you. If you’re over forty, the chances are you had or used at least one of these…
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Continue reading →: Review: Impulse
I’m not sure where I first read about the Jumper books by Steven Gould. Possibly on Boing Boing. Impulse is the third in the series, following Jumper and Reflex. (There was an awful 2008 film called Jumper, loosely based on the first book, starring Billy Elliot’s Jamie Bell and Wooden…
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Continue reading →: Review: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
I do love a good popular science book. I spent many a teenage year devouring books about the bizarro world of quantum physics and the magical future of nanotechnology, always fifteen years away with its promises of wondrous microscopic self-replicating devices and a planet eaten by grey goo. Annalee Newitz’s…









