If you want to know who I am, you'll have to visit my other, non-anonymized, page. But I'm not going to give you a link to that, because that would defeat the point.
Read the recipes used at my birthday party, along with some information about the book they came from. Also see the associated photos. An early draft of the Hype Quickie acronym guide is now up. Comments greatly appreciated. You can read the selection of quotations I use for email signatures. They're not all free of swearwords. They aren't all statements that I agree with. Several are longer than four lines (though all fit in 80 columns). Several of them (which is to say, my favourites) don't even make sense. Consider yourselves warned. The format is (not coincidentally) that of Unix fortune files, which is to say that quotations are separated by lines containing "%".The Hypothetical Comma Challenge has now finished, with Alex and Gareth being joint winners.
You can download my GPG key, and send me encrypted email. If you wish, you can look at the configuration files I use for the Mutt mailreader and Vim.
Also up are some small bits of software, and I fully
intend to write more soon - I made a stab at turning the algorithms from my
section c Computational Methods in Finite Fields course into Haskell code, but found that the type system
was insufficiently general for my needs (wondrous and cool though it is) - roll
on Template Haskell, that's what I
say. I'm currently re-implementing this stuff in C++, which doesn't have a
sufficiently general type system either, but is a lot closer to what I need.
I've also written Yet Another vi versus Emacs
page (currently incomplete). It was intended to be balanced, but the clear
objective superiority of vi soon put paid to that idea :-) .
Having worked for a tour guiding company and a GIS vendor, it was inevitable that some of this kind of thing would appear (though had I produced the maps with a proper GIS, they would have been of rather higher quality). You can see my map of New College (or, if you can't use PNG, you can get that in JPEG format, but changing your browser is a much better idea - use Mozilla instead, it's much better) and my map of some places to park in Oxford.
I've also added my advice for visitors to Prague and Oxford - the Oxford one is imperfectly HTMLised, and optimised for Oxfordshire dwellers with history degrees who don't know their way around the University, but you may find it useful.
Hypothetical -
slow-motion discussion/chat forum. Usually pretty entertaining.
Aftnn.org - the web page of Fulham-based web
developer Ben "Afternoon" Godfrey, the man behind Hypothetical,
and the guy to turn to for all your
PHP/Java/Javascript/DHTML/MySQL/CSS/etc needs. Be sure to check out his
rather lovely photo gallery.
Ninj4.org - the page of Mat "Mat"
Brown, likewise of Hypothetical, and likewise a web developer of much
skill. He too has a lovely photo
gallery - I really must do something about mine. Also check out his
latest project, moblog, which allows you
to upload photos from your camera phone to the web in seven keypresses,
including taking the picture. Other sites do this, but his has a higher
rate of successful submissions and is the only one to use Creative
Commons licensing (which is good, trust me on this).
OULES - short
for Oxford University Light Entertainment Society, we're a theatre group
that puts on plays at old people's homes and special needs schools, as
well as for students. A while ago I directed a production of Wind in the
Willows for them. Sadly you've missed our Edinburgh Fringe production of
Dracula, but we'll
probably do something else next year..
Sluggy Freelance - surreal and highly
nifty online comic.
Sinfest - another surreal and highly
nifty online comic.
User Friendly - another online comic.
Less nifty, though occasionally very funny indeed.
Megatokyo - another online comic. If you
only visit one webcomic link, this is the one I recommend. The art's
better, and there's a lot less of it to read.
Venus Envy - yet another
webcomic, this one about transsexuality and stuff. Not as good as the
others.
Nyder's Dyner - Nyder is a
leather-clad anthropologist by day and a leather-clad Dalek henchperson by night. Ah, the hell with it, just go and read the site, she'll explain it better than I can. Also check out Kaldor City.
Zompist's Metaverse - linguistics,
comics, and some interesting political rants.
Not My Desk - again, just read the
damn thing.
Spinnwebe - a once great site, now
fallen on hard times.
The Brunching Shuttlecocks
- the Mr T Name Generator, Porn Star or My Little Pony? C.Y.B.O.R.G,
and much more.
The Psycho Family
Cirkus - the successor to the late lamented Dysfunctional Family
Circus: a sort of ongoing caption competition.
CatB.org - the homepage of
Eric S. Raymond, the open-source guru. Contains, amongst much else, the
Jargon File.
JWZ.org - the homepage of Jamie Zawinski,
another open-source guru. Interesting guy. He now sells beer, which I
approve of.
Slashdot and
Plastic - online news/discussion
sites. Slashdot is heavily tech/science biased, Plastic is more
general.
How To
Deconstruct Almost Anything - an engineer's view of postmodernism.
Dracos - Matthew "Lord Vetinari"
Somerville, who's kindly hosting
an improved
version of a program I wrote a while ago (and quite a lot of stuff
of his own, obviously).
A photo
tour of Chernobyl by a beautiful but insane Ukrainian biker chick
called Elena.
The Cult-TV link farm, produced by lm3.
Let My People Go!.
One of the funniest pieces of writing on the Web.
More to come soon, no doubt. Meanwhile, enjoy a random photo of Sri Lanka.
