Land of the Ninja

On books, computing and general erratica.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Books: The best read in 2013

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So, a round-up of the books I most enjoyed in 2013, two of which particularly stood out, and none of which were actually published last ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

English - the vexation: adjectives

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This cropped up in discussion a few weeks ago, and irritated the hell out of me for some time after.  Why are certain word orderings "r...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Flash Fiction: Ermintrude

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This is a piece of Lovecraftian flash fiction the bulk of which I wrote previously as a comment backstory for the artwork by the inimitabl...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

On layering naming over numbers in social networking

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I'm sure many of you have seen the Social Number social network about by now.  If you haven't, it's a network based around anon...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Flash Fiction: Gate

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Dare I enter? Scraped and pockmarked from a thousand thousand years bared to space, the outer walls scream their age into the inky blac...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

On the failure of sci-fi

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This is mostly a rant aimed at dramatic presentations.  TV and film are just gross offenders; books less so, if you're looking in the r...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

On AI's past, on AI's future

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So much of what has been labelled as AI, when projecting into the future, has had the sticker torn off once the accomplishment has been ac...
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