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- 13th July 2008
-
Fixed typo. Added some lead weights to my Ponderous Apophthegms.
- 27th January 2008
- The Five Marks of a
Holy Book.
- 29th August 2007
- The Arithmetic of
consolation is my response to Scott M. Peck's exposition
of Grace.
- 4th November 2006
- A tax rate of 25% can be made to sound smaller by
calling it twenty pence in the pound.
- 25th February 2004
- I disect two equally bad ways of simplifying
Cost/Benefit
Analysis
in the awkward struggle to put the technique into practise.
- 27th September 2003
- I've become very unhappy with the phrase
"back-to-nature". It seems to mean something, then as you
look more closely the meaning evaporates.
- 30th November 2002
- An intriguing, but unresearched, sepculation as to the
cause of Repetitive Strain Injury
- 15th September 2002
- In mathematics, logic offers certain proof. In real life,
proof creates dilemmas. Is one persuaded of the conclusion,
or driven to question one's assumptions. Reductio ad absurdum versus proof
of necessity expands upon this key difference.
- 22nd June 2002
- Rather bleak essay Freedom and the Three Great Distrusts
- 29th May 2002
- The first picture on my site, a piece of my
mathematical art
- 14th May 2002
- An essay about the
future of business air travel,
which I wrote for The Economist's essay
competition,Going faster, but where?
- 26th April 2002
- A dramatisation of Simpson's Paradox
- 25th April 2002
- Attending to link rot and spelling errors.
- 27th January 2001
- An obscure technical essay on for-loops
for page description languages,
and an untested idea for teaching children multiplication tables
- 20th January 2001
- Four more essays, none to boast about. Removed the index to the different kinds of
writing from my front page, now in my soap box.
Why I go barefoot split into 4 successive pages,
and ready for external proof reading.
- 9th January 2001
- Added a webcounter from
digits.com, and some multi-column control on 1st Jan's pages.
- 3rd January 2001
- PostScript
program
for ruling blank music sheets
- 1st January 2001
- Millenium splurge. Lots of new content.
- 1st September 2000
- Multi-column control on more pages, and first
political essay,
about third world debt relief
- 17th May 2000
- Multi-column control added to selected pages.
- 14th May 2000
- I've put up brief explainations of this sites
navigation theory, both for
linear text and
hyper text,,
but the examples are still to come