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I am a software programmer working at RealVNC with many interests including singing, and am a Christian. Many of my friends remember me as a Part III mathematician at Peterhouse. Find out more or contact me!

Language subtag lookup app

Awesome little tool! The fastest, most comprehensive. Has all subtags, and up-to-date with the endless revisions and additions to the registry.

I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game

Pretty tough, actually. Rather fun.

World IPv6 Day

Watch this space!

Touchstone Archives: Narnia Invaded

This is a very interesting commentary approaching the latest Narnia films obliquely from a Lordship theology perspective (that wonderful thing I am always banging on about). Do read and consider.

Mathematica for Hobbyists

Mathematica 8 is out, and it is more expensive for businesses (£2000pp.), but a whole lot cheaper for students (£100) plus a new ulta-bargain £200 edition for home use. This is very cool news.

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit

Bike Messengers' Race

Clearly my CMS time can indeed be just as fast at 9.00… I need a messenger bag for Christmas though to cut up pedestrians this badly.

CMS laps

My morning CMS lap just got a lot slower… Still under 5:30 (discounting lights).

The Anglican Covenant

Marcus’ post today is very good without concluding too much or on the other hand equivocating.

The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Hydrochloric Acid from Chlorine and Hydrogen

Wow… I am stocking up on some chemical and metalworking supplies and came across this while seeing if Amazon had hydrochloric. Fun job to have writing this!

JS Dead Code Elimination for Beginners (Sayre)

Now the information comes out regarding IE9’s anomalous SunSpider results. Tricksy.

The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 624-627

“Another important goal of the book is the rewriting of the history of the field (in the author’s words, a ‘smoothed-over story’), presenting the author as the sole inventor of its main concepts and results.” Thomas Forster: “Chaitin? Wasn’t he a bit of a maniac?”

Men Who Love Too Much (the Atlantic magazine)

Disagree at leisure, but some very interesting ideas of the mind and heart are explored here.

Man Church

Err… Oops?

Themelios review of Naugle, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives

I just have to read this! It ticks every emphasis of what I have been trying to share with CG and friends over the last year, and comes straight from the group of authors I have found most devotionally moving recently.