Cycle tour to Warsash and Staines
2009-06-29
A cycle tour from Cambridge to Warsash and Staines and back again, with photos and some discussion about how I planned it.
BNP press office on mixed-race marriages
2009-06-02
An e-mail exchange I had a few years ago with “Dr. Phill Edwards” of the British National Party.
Punctures
2009-05-31
A ride with the Cambridge Cycling Club suffers a visit from the puncture fairy.
Pillars of the community
2009-05-26
Some comments on the sabotage of the Étape Caledonia and the lorry driver who nearly killed Boris Johnson.
Improving road safety
2009-05-08
A look at the National Audit Office report Improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in Great Britain. “You can see that the normalized figures are not nearly so flattering to the UK. Is this just plain incompetence, or a deliberate attempt to mislead?”
Manifold: Time
2009-04-08
A review of Stephen Baxter’s 2000 novel Manifold: Time. “Baxter completely lacks control over his material in this novel. He has potentially powerful themes and ideas, but handles them so inconsistently that they lose all their power.”
Roberts on Incandescence
2009-03-20
A commentary on Adam Roberts’ review of Greg Egan’s novel Incandescence in Strange Horizons.
Colliding balls
2009-02-17
Several approaches to implementing a system of colliding balls, ranging from quick-and-rough to painstaking-and-slow.