About me

This is the personal blog of Simon Brooke; I'm a retired software engineer and crofter, living alone in a sort of a house which I built for myself in Galloway, Scotland.

You'll also find me on Twtter, Github, and various other places around the web.

Parts of this blog have been automatically extracted from Blogger using a bunch of hacks. Some of the formatting is not yet right. I'm working on it.

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The Fool on the Hill: Introduction

Recent:

Monday, 11 July 2022: Response to Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation
Monday, 21 March 2021: On Violence with reference to the invasion of Ukraine
Wednesday, 17th February 2022: Manifesto for a good society
Sunday, 28 November 2021: The Storm
Monday, 15 November 2021: The Everyone Dies Event Class
Monday, 1 November 2021: Owning Scotland's Land
Wednesday, 18 August 2021: Wheres the Steel?
Wednesday, 5 May 2021: An Elegy of sorts
Wednesday, 21 April 2021: Death glory and computer games
Saturday, 6 February 2021: The Union
January 2021: On Suicide

Full Index by date

Highlights

Politics

Wednesday, 17th February 2022: Manifesto for a good society
Friday, 24 July 2020: Rape grouse and the pathology of power
Friday, 27 April 2018: Of foxes and kings
Friday, 17 February 2017: The Right Honourable Liar Carmichael and the problem of Fake News
Friday, 26 August 2016: Whose right?
Monday, 16 March 2015: The Law of Freedom in a Web Page or the True Levellers Standard advanced anew
Friday, 23 January 2015: Independence which changes nothing is worth nothing

Rural affairs

Saturday, 21 July 2018: The minimum viable village
Wednesday, 17 May 2017: On the slaughter of our raptors
Sunday, 22 November 2015: Feu Duties and Dereliction
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: I want the whole of the moon

Computing

Thursday, 12 April 2018: Mourning goose
Tuesday, 19 September 2017: Implementing postscarcity hardware
Thursday, 14 September 2017: Hardware of the deep future
Saturday, 25 October 2014: Post Scarcity Hardware
Sunday, 25 August 2013: Reference counting and the garbage collection of equal sized objects
Monday, 20 February 2006: Postscarcity Software

Madness

Friday, 28 August 2015: Breaking young minds
Monday, 13 May 2013: On psychiatry homeopathy and the medicalisation of distress
Tuesday, 16 April 2013: A letter from a Wicked Uncle

Errata

The 'categories' feature is not yet working.
Some image links were not correctly converted from blogger.

I'm working on these!

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