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Writing

  1. Top Tunes of 2007, part 1

    The first part of my favourite tunes of 2007. Unsurprisingly.

  2. Opacity: 1 ! important;

    Bloglines recently changed the look of their Beta design. Here’s how to make it look better using Firefox.

  3. Rush hour on the Barley Highway

    Last year I bought a fixed-gear bike. Here’s what I think of it. But I’m also wondering why Parisians have a much more relaxed cycling culture.

  4. Love and hate

    My time at LISPA is over and while it’s been good, it’s too soon to know just how I’ve changed.

  5. Now and Then

    How we went about creating my final project, a short piece of theatre about the start and end of a relationship.

  6. The director’s vision

    I was in three people’s final projects: a brief clown, father of a girl who grows wings, and the element Polonium killing Marie Curie.

  7. Fight Test

    I’ve finished the stage combat course I started last year, and passed the Fight Performance Test.

  8. Telling each other what to do

    The final phase of the course, our final personal projects, a transition into the real world.

  9. Me at Interesting 2008

    Two little videos of parts of a five minute talk on masks I gave at Interesting 2008 last weekend.

  10. Occasionally going “SSSHHHH!”

    Our best-of-year performances are over. A very trying but thankfully satisfying process.

  11. Enjoying enjoying

    It’s the final term of college, nothing but Creation, and… I’m enjoying it!

  12. Stop and go “Huh?”

    An idea by Russell Davies, and the hostile reactions to it, reminded me of how contextless so much writing is online.

  13. Risking execution

    Reading Terry Eagleton writing about the history of publishing anonymously, and failing to see modern day publishers, online or off, risking execution to safeguard a writer’s anonymity.

  14. More Twitter angst

    My tweets are now public again, the lesser of two evils I think.

  15. Different types of funny

    The end of our penultimate term, with our performance full of clowns.

  16. Meagre ambitions

    Three things I haven’t even attempted at college recently, and doubts about what I’m doing all this for.

  17. UTF8, MySQL, Perl and PHP

    A summary of the problems I had with keeping things UTF8 when re-writing Haddock Blogs, and the solutions I settled on.

  18. Haddock Blogs changes

    A summary of the recent changes to the Haddock Blogs site and feeds.

  19. I’m not bugging your phone

    I’ve made my Twitters private and this has meant that some people I know can no longer read them. Sorry.

  20. Creating narrative as a team

    Clowning is going well, in contrast to the Creation of the first couple of weeks of term, when we returned to the Heart of Darkness.

  21. A mental “yes”

    We’ve started the term of clowns, beginning with trying to find our own individual clowns.

  22. Bottom of a locked filing cabinet

    More fun with BT Yahoo! attempts at helping people who can’t send email through their service.

  23. Beware of the Leopard

    The struggle we went through trying to resolve an issue with BT (and their associated brands) and their SMTP server settings.

  24. Brits on a train

    The presentations at the end of the second term of the second year were fun, and we did some more work on our gory, grotesque commuter piece.

  25. Hanging on to the reins

    We spent a few weeks doing chorus work at the end of this term, but after all that I’m still clueless as to what makes a good chorus piece.