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July 2013 Reading
I have never read much Woolf and always thought I ought to. I found her essay, which looks at what it means to be a woman who makes art was a lot more accessible than I had been led to believe her writing would be. She does tak …
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Hack: Simply Scheme as a single pdf with wget and pdftk
There’s an introductory Scheme programming book called Simply Scheme that is available online for free. I wanted to brush up on my Scheme recently as part of writing my own implementation of the language in Haskell. However, the book is only available as html or as pdfs of the chapters. Whi …
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June 2013 Reading
I started my Scheme interpreter a few weeks back and then realized I didn't know Scheme that well. This book cam recommended as an intro to the language and is available online for free. Its very accessible, and wonde …
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Review — Ross on Wye Dry cider at Barncamp 2013
So I’m at Barncamp 2013 hanging out with some of the coolest people in the UK to talk about information security, tech politics, eco-friendly computing and all that. There is vegan food and sunshine and beautiful count …
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Review — Cidre Bouché Cuvée du Cellier
Like the Cidre Domaine de la Galotière that I reviewed the other day, this came from a craft market called Plein du Publique in Pijnackerplein in Rotterdam courtesy of Wouter Bijl of CiderCid …
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Review — Cidre Domaine de la Galotière from the craft market
Today Nor and I wandered up to a lovely little craft event called Plein du Publique in Pijnackerplein near her gaff in Rotterdam. One of the stalls was run by Wouter Bijl of CiderCide …
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May 2013 Reading
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 hours is a wiki tutorial that has been turned into a free PDF. I am working on writing a programming language this year and Scheme is a reasonable start being relatively simple to parse and make into a …
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Review — Henry Westons Medium Dry Oak Aged Herefordshire Cider
This is one of the many ciders that Westons are putting out at the moment. It comes in a nice straightforward brown bottle in the standard Henry Wesons livery. Popping the cap causes a nice inviting hiss, and pouring reveals that th …
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Review — Waitrose 2011 Vintage Herefordshire Cider
I was in a Waitrose the other day, observing the bourgeois fascination with all forms of pretentious food. Well, actually I was looking for cider. Because that, as the phrase has it, is how I roll. I found a couple of intersetin …
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Timeline: 40 Years of New Internationalist Magazine
Its 40 years since New Internationalist magazine, where I work, was officially founded. It began life as the successor to The Internationalist, house mag of Third World First, now People & Planet. One of the ways that we are celebrating is by taking a look back at our history with this lo …
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