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Representation anent Amendment 8 to the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill -- Monday, 15 March, 2010

Our MSPs - or, specifically, one Trish Godman MSP - are at it again. Introducing legislation so regressively antediluvian it would shock the Taleban. How long will it be before sex in Scotland is simply banned altogether? Here's my response.

Settling a game world -- Thursday, 31 December, 2009

A third in a series of essays on how to make large, satisfying game worlds.

Draft response to Ordnance Survey consultation -- Tuesday, 29 December, 2009

The government are consulting on proposals to release a substantial chunk of Ordnance Survey data for free. This is my first draft of a response to that consultation.

When in Germany... -- Friday, 13 November, 2009

This week ich habe mostly been auf Deutschland...

The polemic, as detective story -- Tuesday, 3 November, 2009

Steig Larsson's first novel looks like a detective story. Well, it looks like that because it is one. But, at a deeper level, it isn't...

So, Astrology -- Wednesday, 7 October, 2009

Someone on an Internet forum asked me tonight why I don't believe in astrology. I wrote her a long answer...

Days when I'm proud to be Scots -- Friday, 21 August, 2009

We released al-Megrahi yesterday. On compassionate grounds. Against strong international pressure.

Two new route mapping systems -- Sunday, 22 March, 2009

Two years ago I wrote about two different cycle route mapping systems which were available then, Toporoute and Sanoodi. Recently I've evaluated two new systems. Both are much better, but they have different merits.

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