Lately

The Behavioral Economics of Savings, 5 July 2020
Regarding the News, 8 October 2017
Photographs I Like, 3 October 2015
On Marriage and Civil Partnerships, 3 October 2015
JFK on Capitalism versus Communism, 3 October 2015
Climbing Puncak Jaya, 9 May 2015
Recent Readings, 6 April 2015
My Desktop, 24 February 2015
Michael Bloomberg on Immigrants, 10 July 2012
Selling Commissions, 10 June 2012
Translating Proust, by Man and Machine, 17 May 2012
Marc Jacobs versus Kidult, 16 May 2012
Getting Charity Shops to Sell Your Stuff For You, 15 May 2012
What Samuel Johnson writes when Samuel Johnson Finds he Cannot Speak, 20 August 2011
Junior Hockey in Canada's Heartland, 7 June 2011
Oscar Wilde, living up to his China, 16 May 2011
Orwell and Emerson--Aesthetes Both, 7 May 2011
On Doing Things Incorrectly, 7 May 2011
How the UK will produce and consume energy in 2050, 7 March 2011
Caravaggio and the Artichokes, 23 February 2011
How I Managed to Read the Third Stieg Larsson Before the Second; Kindle Review, 4 October 2010
$100,000 electric cars? They're not environmentally friendly, 22 August 2010
Askers versus guessers, 27 June 2010
Sport, nationalism, and the imagined community of millions, 24 June 2010
An award for not killing, 23 June 2010
Slipping timelines from 'in a few weeks' to 'Christmas' in one sentence, 22 June 2010
Speed of Information Travel to London, 1798-1914, 12 July 2009
What beliefs will horrify future generations?, 22 May 2009
Reviews from 30000ft, 22 May 2009
Palladio at the Royal Academy, 7 March 2009
Do U Need A Drumer, 1 January 2009
The Home, According to the V&A, 31 December 2008
Just For Men vs. Ahmadinejad, 31 December 2008
The Most Surprising Thing That Happened to Me on Christmas Day, 28 December 2008
The Seventh Seal, 3 October 2008
Maids of honor, 5 August 2008
London's hierarchy of high street stores, 8 June 2008
Disabling accesskeys (shortcuts) in WordPress, 3 June 2008
Link tracking via JavaScript and Cookies, 1 June 2008
When you aim at the king you had better kill him, 19 May 2008
Fortunately, peasants are human beings, 18 May 2008
Where your money goes, 23 January 2008
The Price of a Thing, 23 January 2008
Pronouncing Tate, 21 October 2007
A Hand-Built Bed, 20 October 2007
Fierce Little Midgets, 5 September 2007
On not knowing how to spell "internet", 6 May 2007
Future Monoculture, 25 January 2007
What Livejournal Is, 2 December 2006
Risk management in Afghanistan, 2 December 2006
Hawking on scientific method, and string theory, 2 December 2006
Phrase least likely, 30 October 2006
Smells and Sensations, 5 August 2006
Australia's national debt paid of by selling land around the Australian Embassy in Tokyo?, 5 August 2006
American Girls, 31 May 2006
Salinger on Judas, 18 April 2006
Reading Lolita on the tube, 18 April 2006
Newsweek, 18 April 2006
A Bad Guesser, 18 April 2006
Humility, 1 April 2006
Web Toys, 28 March 2006
Agony Aunt, 16 March 2006
Lasting fame, 9 March 2006
What I would like ..., 7 March 2006
Movie/Oscars stuff, 7 March 2006
Change and little Japanese Restaurants, 27 February 2006
The Indulgent Kate Bush, 27 February 2006
Uncomfortable emails, 19 February 2006
... Photoshopped!, 3 February 2006
New Design, 3 February 2006
Language and the Web, 1 February 2006
Still Australia, 31 January 2006
Change and little Japanese restaurants, 14 January 2006
Books and parables, 13 January 2006
A Protestation, 12 January 2006
Kids at play, 8 January 2006
The Book of the Courtier, 4 January 2006
Australian Phonetic Alphabet, 4 January 2006
My interests include entering my personal details on social networking sites over and over and over, 23 December 2005
Airing of grievances, 23 December 2005
Oh Australia, 21 December 2005
Ugly eBay, 16 December 2005
DOs and DON'Ts redux, 16 December 2005
A discovery, 15 December 2005
Challenging Misconceptions, 14 December 2005
Foncused, 5 December 2005
Reliable Apple, 28 November 2005
Shrugged, 10 November 2005
Nilo Rodis-Jamero, I like his style, 1 November 2005
Nail scissor notes, 9 October 2005
Spelling, 17 September 2005
PC or Mac fonts?, 22 August 2005
NO NO NO NOT "10$", 20 August 2005
What's with the Long Tail?, 8 August 2005
Technology gripe of the week, 7 August 2005
Wikipedia questions, 6 August 2005
The Shuttle Fleet, 29 July 2005
Horsepower, and torque, 29 July 2005
To Insure Promptness, 18 July 2005
The Aristocrats?, 15 July 2005
What constitutes a correction?, 9 July 2005
Puzzles, 16 June 2005
Facts and Opposite Facts, 16 June 2005
People Who Haven't Seen Star Wars, 9 June 2005
Hullo Evolutionists!, 5 June 2005
Is it because I is black?, 2 June 2005
Dessert Tip, 2 June 2005
Liberals v. Conservatives, 25 May 2005
Getting To the End, 16 March 2005
Professors Love, 15 March 2005
Ikea, 15 March 2005
Heavy Pockets, 8 March 2005
Libraries and Library Cards, 2 March 2005
DRM is sexist, 22 January 2005
The value of things, 19 January 2005
Musical misfortune, 31 December 2004
Apple Good Apple Bad, 30 December 2004
Analog vs. Digital, 29 December 2004
MAIL FROM MY MOTHER IS NOT SPAM, 27 November 2004
DSLR or point-and-shoot?, 23 November 2004
Democratic States with Republican governors, 9 November 2004
Typos, 5 November 2004
Election Notes, 3 November 2004
Red things, 25 October 2004
The humor is there, but it's dark, 12 October 2004
Crunch Time, 4 October 2004
Gmail invitations, 25 September 2004
london.craigslist.org, 18 September 2004
A Just Weight, 9 September 2004
Apostrophecation, 4 September 2004
This is Special Day, 3 September 2004
The "Betamax Decision", 3 September 2004
Nicholson Baker's Post-It, 29 August 2004
Artificial sweetener, 1 August 2004
I can't believe I'm praising a bank, 18 July 2004
Credit card numbers, 10 July 2004
Questions, 9 July 2004
Pithy, 7 July 2004
Rooney's Big Mistake, 23 June 2004
Monster, 23 June 2004
About Gmail, 23 June 2004
Functional flagpoles, 22 June 2004
Boo to the David Suzuki Foundation, 11 June 2004
On Smoking Bans, 5 June 2004
Kerry strong on defence?, 5 June 2004
JFK and the separation of church and state, 5 June 2004
SMS from Craig, 2 June 2004
What makes an "emergency request"?, 28 May 2004
Photos; and envy, 28 May 2004
About Wagamama, 26 May 2004
Rude Nokias, 22 May 2004
People I've Seen Recently, 15 May 2004
The saltiness of salt, 19 April 2004
Cockroaches and daffodils, 28 March 2004
Casino Royale, 19 March 2004
Anything but a comma!, 16 March 2004
Little kids that try to steal stuff, 15 March 2004
Where the Landscape Painters Go, 30 June 2003
The Cult of Personality, 22 June 2003
Review: The Matrix Reloaded, 17 May 2003
What Fashion Is, 8 May 2003
Recent Celebrations, 16 April 2003
Photographing a Tree, 15 April 2003
I Feel So Virtuous, 15 April 2003
The Perfect Order of Words in the Sentences I Have, 10 April 2003
Gillette; Benetton, 30 March 2003
Je Ne Regrette Rien, 24 March 2003
No Such Men As We Fable, 17 March 2003
The Life You Lead, 3 March 2003
Review: The Sexual Life of Catherine M., 26 February 2003
Home, 13 February 2003
Oxbridge College-Naming Maliciousness, 8 February 2003
A Game of Scrabble, 7 February 2003
Sign Language Puzzles, 7 February 2003
North America, 31 January 2003
Three Things, 30 November 2002
Manners These Days, 28 November 2002
iiiii, 28 October 2002
Ephemera, 2 August 2002
Short Stories; Manual, 26 June 2002
Library Architecture, 23 June 2002
Cold and the Hollywood Palace; Favourite Places, 2 June 2002
Why You Might Like to Read This Story, 9 April 2002
April 11th is My Birthday, 28 March 2002
Holiday, 11 February 2002
Miscellaneous Notes, 8 February 2002
Proust and Punctuation, 19 January 2002
Unlikely Movies; Arundhati Roy, 9 January 2002
The Nobel Prize for Literature, 1 January 2002
Boxing Day Message, 26 December 2001
Christmas Message, 25 December 2001
Big Ass Traffic Light, 19 November 2001
Big Red Tube, 15 November 2001
My Morning Walk to Work, 3 November 2001
Scottish News, 31 October 2001
Provocative Stamps, 7 September 2001
Three Euphemisms for Sex, 3 September 2001
Travel Snaps, 15 August 2001
Milly-Molly-Mandy, 9 August 2001
House Hunting, 7 August 2001
Sylvia Plath: and Stories in Parts, 19 July 2001
Cambridge: Then and Now, 10 July 2001
A Big Bang, 9 July 2001
Record Players, 21 June 2001
Kenko, 8 June 2001
Renewal, 20 May 2001
Trivial Thoughts, 16 April 2001
A Style Guide, 16 April 2001
Post-thesis Update, 4 April 2001
Signs Seen on Travels, 8 March 2001
Maupassant and Fool Translators, 21 February 2001
Singapore, Malaysia, Home, 20 February 2001
Edinburgh, Tobacco, 11 February 2001
Prague, 27 January 2001
More Bike Stuff, 27 January 2001
Street Crime, 20 January 2001
Back in Paris, 17 January 2001
Guestbook Comments Transcribed, 3 January 2001
They do Things Differently in China, 22 November 2000
People Poll, 16 November 2000
Update, Ponderings, 15 November 2000
Ten Answers, 13 November 2000
Chopin the Pansy, 7 October 2000
Things I've Read Recently, 23 September 2000
Some Dedications, 26 August 2000
My Desktop, 22 August 2000
The Big Ten-Oh-Oh-Oh, 8 August 2000
On the Conjunction 'but', 5 August 2000
Penmanship, 21 July 2000
Names That Start with 'Cl', 15 July 2000
July 13th, 13 July 2000
First Name Fun, 12 July 2000
International Voicemail, 11 July 2000
Misc., 30 June 2000
Virtual Makeover, 30 June 2000
My Fantastic Easter Weekend, 25 April 2000
More Webloggery, 11 April 2000
Making Like a Weblog, 4 April 2000
Yet Another Review That Does Not Contain the Word 'Pirates', 15 March 2000
Nine Silly Short Stories in the Style of a Familiar Palindrome, 6 March 2000
What My Wallet Has Inside It, 26 February 2000
*Oh*--*Ponder*--*Yow*, 18 February 2000
African Animals with Unlikely Names, 15 January 2000
Brief Reviews of Various Things, 7 January 2000
So Here's What I Did, 6 January 2000
This Is What I Looked Like This Morning, 21 December 1999
Area Man Finally Finds Time to Update Webpage, 13 December 1999
That Harmony Korine, He Sure Is a Mixed-up Kid, 12 December 1999
Tears Were Shed This Night, 11 December 1999
This Is What They Call Creative Advertising, 6 December 1999
Words I Didn't Know, 5 December 1999
Magnetic Poetry Yecch, 5 December 1999
It Really Hasn't Been a Good Week, 3 December 1999
A Review of Talk by Someone Who Hasn't Read It, 3 December 1999
Michael Versus the Inbox, 1 December 1999
The Advantages of Working from Home and ... a Project!, 30 November 1999
A Little Quiz, 25 November 1999
Things that Happened Today, 20 November 1999
Kids Born in the 80s, 19 November 1999
The Yodeling Cowboy, 17 November 1999
Rocky is a Good Movie, 15 November 1999
Great Punctuation Marks of North Dakota, 13 November 1999
Martin Amis and Steven Spielberg, 11 November 1999
On Woodstock 99, 10 November 1999
The Dalai Lama is a Huckster and a Fraud, 9 November 1999
On imood, 8 November 1999
Sagely Words About Work, 7 November 1999
A Little too Much Red, 7 November 1999
Arguments Against Writing and Books, 6 November 1999
Things I Have That Belong to Other People, 4 November 1999