After much faffing about with repeated sending of faxes to multiple numbers I finally proved I was human and accountable enough for "Edit with Emacs" to appear on the Chrome Extension Gallery. This almost immediately showed up some documentation and usage usability issues so I spent some of my spare …

We went to an interesting lecture last night at Churchill College.

There is a problem with the universe. It doesn't quite behave as we would expect it to given the amount of mass we can see in it. To account for the difference in the observed universe and the what …

When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories- …

So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities.

Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In …

In my spare time I've been mostly bashing away at trying to implement an edit server for the Emacs Chrome extension in Emacs Lisp. It's taking longer than I hoped mainly as it's the first time I've ever tried to use the Emacs Lisp Debugger and it's fairly alien compared …