The Fool on the Hill

2024 April

• Apr 18 - The Game Engine Problem

2024 March

• Mar 21 - The Dogs of War
• Mar 19 - Cyberpunk 2077, and flawed art

2023 October

• Oct 19 - Whatever is not reserved, is devolved
• Oct 12 - Feeding the one billion

2023 August

• Aug 30 - Hanging out in the gorge
• Aug 12 - On representative democracy, and citizens' assemblies
• Aug 11 - What's so good about Kenshi?
• Aug 02 - Cycle parking for Auchencairn

2023 July

• Jul 20 - The bike I don't love
• Jul 14 - Riese und Müller Load 4 75: brief review
• Jul 08 - Sweet as Sugar
• Jul 06 - Extreme poverty
• Jul 03 - The Vision Thing
• Jul 01 - Ane Bill Anent the Appointment of a Jester to the Court of St James's
• Jul 01 - Large Language Models and Knowledge

2023 June

• Jun 30 - Who owns 'Yes'?
• Jun 14 - Atoure Numenie
• Jun 03 - Why Scotland?

2023 May

• May 22 - Climate Change as Crime
• May 22 - Please sir, we want more...
• May 14 - The carbon economics of sawing timber
• May 03 - On the protection of minorities

2023 April

• Apr 28 - Out, brief candle?
• Apr 19 - Unblocking the chain
• Apr 02 - The properties of the system, and their values

2023 March

• Mar 09 - Blog IV

2023 February

• Feb 08 - On Money

2022 October

• Oct 20 - Final thoughts before committing to buy a sawmill

2022 September

• Sept 01 - On the Semiotics of the Collar

2022 August

• Aug 14 - Repression and the Anonymous Candelabra

2022 July

• Jul 20 - Scottish Government Land Reform consultation meeting Langholm
• Jul 19 - It's time tae rise as levellers again -- Updated
• Jul 18 - Defence of the Good Society
• Jul 11 - Response to Consultation ‘Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation’

2022 April

• Apr 15 - The Heist and After

2022 February

• Feb 17 - Manifesto for a good society
• Feb 15 - Modular electric farm traction

2021 November

• Nov 27 - The Storm
• Nov 15 - The Everyone Dies Event Class
• Nov 01 - Owning Scotland's Land

2021 August

• Aug 18 - Where's the Steel?

2021 May

• May 05 - An elegy, of sorts

2021 April

• Apr 21 - Death, glory, and computer games

2021 March

• Mar 21 - On Violence, with reference to the invasion of Ukraine

2021 February

• Feb 22 - Plan for Smallholders UK week
• Feb 06 - The Union: Sketch outine for a Cyberpunk mod

2021 January

• Jan 15 - On Suicide
• Jan 01 - T-Bug, memory management, and Cyberpunk

2020 December

• Dec 17 - Cyberpunk 2077, considered as a Witcher III DLC

2020 November

• Nov 19 - Sexual morality in the world of the Witcher
• Nov 10 - Virtual Cities

2020 September

• Sept 26 - Who is the fairest of them all?
• Sept 06 - Saving the union? Maybe naw

2020 August

• Aug 26 - Cattle on the hilltop

2020 July

• Jul 24 - Rape, grouse, and the pathology of power
• Jul 04 - The Ranger's sword hilt

2020 June

• Jun 23 - Pathmaking

2020 May

• May 20 - Common Home Plan Buildings: Critique

2020 April

• Apr 26 - The Virus, and independence

2020 February

• Feb 27 - Putting data on the map

2019 December

• Dec 25 - World enough, and Time

2019 October

• Oct 25 - Party Party

2019 August

• Aug 14 - Eagles, and governance

2019 June

• Jun 08 - The quest for Zireael

2019 May

• May 31 - No one here gets out alive
• May 08 - Baking the world

2019 April

• Apr 11 - The Changeling
• Apr 07 - About taxing the car

2019 March

• Mar 29 - Brexit: selfishness, short-termism, rent seeking, and hereditary privilege
• Mar 20 - Kickstarting a hydrogen economy
• Mar 01 - We'll not go

2019 January

• Jan 23 - Mad software
• Jan 02 - Flodden Field, revisited

2018 December

• Dec 03 - Roads to independence

2018 November

• Nov 19 - The inflections in the path

2018 October

• Oct 27 - The Standingstone Model
• Oct 08 - Sex, the Iron Maiden, and NPC repertoire

2018 July

• Jul 21 - The Minimum Viable Village
• Jul 19 - Response to the consultation on the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land
• Jul 09 - The Growth Corruption

2018 June

• Jun 28 - Another letter on the Copyright Directive

2018 May

• May 29 - Limits to Growth

2018 April

• Apr 27 - Of foxes, and kings.
• Apr 19 - Mastering Revision Control
• Apr 12 - Mourning goose
• Apr 10 - Yet another bid to centralise power
• Apr 06 - Response to consultation on a new enterprise agency for the South of Scotland

2018 March

• Mar 24 - On HOOP, and hope.
• Mar 08 - Now is the time

2017 December

• Dec 12 - On Catalunya, and Freedom
• Dec 02 - Wildwood: Development
• Dec 01 - Before Wildwood: the Arboretum engine

2017 November

• Nov 23 - Coffeeneuring
• Nov 06 - Catalunya, Rule, and Law

2017 October

• Oct 09 - The place you call home

2017 September

• Sept 19 - Implementing post-scarcity hardware
• Sept 14 - Hardware of the deep future

2017 August

• Aug 25 - Trust me
• Aug 25 - Riddles in the dark
• Aug 24 - Challenges in the news environment
• Aug 23 - How do we pay for search?

2017 June

• Jun 30 - Signposts, not weathercocks
• Jun 16 - These boots aren't made for walking
• Jun 14 - How to introduce yourself
• Jun 09 - The end of May. And now?
• Jun 06 - Don't be evil

2017 May

• May 17 - On the slaughter of our raptors

2017 April

• Apr 14 - Of means, and ends
• Apr 13 - A really interesting map of Scotland
• Apr 11 - Peer to peer post-scarcity computing

2017 March

• Mar 19 - The Contemptibles, Lackwit, the Literal-Deadbeats, and the United Kleptocrats and Idiots Party

2017 February

• Feb 17 - The Right Honourable Liar Carmichael and the problem of Fake News

2017 January

• Jan 24 - Hard Cheese
• Jan 08 - Post scarcity: Memory, threads and communication

2016 December

• Dec 31 - How not to build your own Lisp
• Dec 24 - Those tyres: 650b x 42
• Dec 05 - Search, and you shall find

2016 November

• Nov 15 - Cannondale Slate: a good bike for bad roads

2016 October

• Oct 20 - Response to the consultation on the 2016 referendum bill
• Oct 19 - Streets paved with gold
• Oct 17 - Calling time on Kaye
• Oct 10 - Cycling as a mode of transport in remote rural Scotland
• Oct 06 - The party of the lairds
• Oct 05 - Preparing for the next Independence Referendum: building the software
• Oct 03 - Consultation on the future of forestry: my response
• Oct 03 - Don't just grouse about it

2016 August

• Aug 26 - Whose right?
• Aug 14 - On functional programming: why tools and their quality matter

2016 July

• Jul 27 - Witcher III: Poland's astonishing cultural achievement
• Jul 26 - More maps of Scotland
• Jul 07 - The end of a work-horse

2016 June

• Jun 26 - Will Scotland veto Brexit?
• Jun 24 - And so we begin again
• Jun 03 - On a Difference of Opinion

2016 April

• Apr 11 - In defence of John Whittingdale
• Apr 03 - Draft letter to Nicola Sturgeon on BothVotesSNP

2016 February

• Feb 17 - BothVotesSNP? That only helps Unionists

2016 January

• Jan 27 - Let's hear it for Mugabe-style land-grabs
• Jan 02 - The Irresolution: on software, quality, and why one works

2015 December

• Dec 06 - Inquisition: frustratingly close to good.

2015 November

• Nov 23 - Colateral damage
• Nov 22 - Feu Duties, and Dereliction

2015 October

• Oct 30 - Of cabbages, and kings
• Oct 21 - Are we going to allow Andrew Stoddart to be thrown out of his home for activism?
• Oct 01 - Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

2015 August

• Aug 28 - Breaking young minds

2015 July

• Jul 17 - whoseBBC?

2015 May

• May 08 - Bright sun, and a bitter wind

2015 April

• Apr 22 - For those in peril on the sea

2015 March

• Mar 19 - Distant echoes
• Mar 16 - The Law of Freedom in a Web Page; or, the True Levellers' Standard advanced anew

2015 February

• Feb 25 - Voice acting considered harmful

2015 January

• Jan 27 - Response to the Government's consultation anent land reform
• Jan 20 - Farewell, Godfrey. Requiescet in pace
• Jan 20 - Weapons of mass destruction, and defence in the modern world
• Jan 18 - Heritability and taxation
• Jan 04 - The Levellers Rant — just the verse

2014 December

• Dec 31 - An unlamented year
• Dec 30 - Of Discipline, and Conscience
• Dec 20 - Land Reform: key issues
• Dec 20 - Proposed plan for the Birnam workshop
• Dec 16 - I want the whole of the moon
• Dec 09 - Me and you and the Duke of Buccleuch
• Dec 07 - Quarter of a million crofts

2014 November

• Nov 29 - The breakfast any self-respecting dog would reject
• Nov 26 - Proposal for a Rural Policy meeting/workshop this winter
• Nov 24 - A worm, and a firmament of stars
• Nov 19 - Credit where credit's due: Russell Brown MP
• Nov 05 - Bigbale: scaling up the Winter Palace to family size
• Nov 01 - How have the mighty fallen

2014 October

• Oct 31 - Scottish Devolution, and Socialism in One Nation
• Oct 25 - Post Scarcity Hardware
• Oct 05 - Submission to the Smith Commission

2014 September

• Sept 28 - More on modelling rivers
• Sept 20 - Parliamentary Questions
• Sept 19 - Jock Tamson's Bairns
• Sept 19 - A Bill anent Wrongfully Enclosed Common Lands
• Sept 09 - Is a currency union with fUK worth £126 Billion?

2014 August

• Aug 26 - Modelling settlement with a cellular automaton
• Aug 20 - The West Lothian Question, take two
• Aug 17 - Syria and Galloway
• Aug 16 - Independence which changes nothing is worth nothing

2014 July

• Jul 26 - The wheelchair users of the Internet
• Jul 26 - Gaza: towards an ethical foreign policy for the new Scotland
• Jul 13 - Dear Feeble Fifty: an epistle anent 'emergency' legislation on communications data

2014 June

• Jun 09 - Who bagged Scotland's missing millions?

2014 May

• May 31 - Not in our name
• May 08 - Say something positive
• May 06 - Eco WHAT!?

2014 April

• Apr 22 - Making oor ane Merk
• Apr 10 - On Clojure as a multi-user environment

2014 March

• Mar 18 - A circular history of money
• Mar 12 - Au tour de ma tête, more or less.

2014 February

• Feb 06 - At fifty thousand words

2014 January

• Jan 29 - Buy the ASA a helmet. They need one!

2013 December

• Dec 18 - Modelling the ships
• Dec 16 - In praise of LuminusWeb
• Dec 08 - A first look at Tchahua
• Dec 08 - On Rascarrel Shore
• Dec 07 - More grief creating formatted documents
• Dec 05 - Restating the case against Land Value Tax
• Dec 04 - Nae Gods, an' precious few heroes: no place for racism in Scotland

2013 November

• Nov 26 - The old Left, and the new Scotland
• Nov 10 - Implementing Milkwood in Java and Clojure
• Nov 03 - A paen in praise of my stove
• Nov 01 - Getting Jenkins CI running on Debian 6 under Tomcat

2013 October

• Oct 27 - Extraordinary renderings of Stuart London
• Oct 27 - Modelling river systems: first glimmer of success
• Oct 26 - 'The Heresy Within' — surprisingly good dark fantasy
• Oct 22 - Draft submission to the English parliament's enquiry anent Scottish land reform
• Oct 14 - Modelling rural to urban, take two
• Oct 06 - The attack burden
• Oct 01 - Of pigeons, and long distance messaging in a game world

2013 September

• Sept 25 - 101 uses for an old smartphone, 1
• Sept 20 - Editing and clojure revisited: this time, with structure!
• Sept 19 - On editing, and Clojure
• Sept 15 - A staggered cantilever house
• Sept 08 - A farewell to pigs

2013 August

• Aug 30 - Freezer sizing
• Aug 25 - Reference counting, and the garbage collection of equal sized objects
• Aug 25 - Images of rape
• Aug 24 - The immutable pool: more on optimising memory management for functional languages
• Aug 23 - Functional languages, memory management, and modern language runtimes

2013 July

• Jul 19 - Ultra-low impact housing and public policy
• Jul 17 - Modelling the change from rural to urban
• Jul 06 - Populating a game world
• Jul 04 - Tessellated multi-layer height map
• Jul 04 - Genetic buildings
• Jul 01 - Turbine economics

2013 June

• Jun 17 - This picture is illegal in Scotland
• Jun 17 - Against Land Value Tax

2013 May

• May 24 - Cycle helmets, and road safety: a letter to the Lord Advocate
• May 14 - Savings, and loans
• May 13 - On psychiatry, homeopathy, and the medicalisation of distress
• May 11 - Review: Unraveled, by Alda Sigmundsdottir
• May 09 - It's time tae rise as levellers again

2013 April

• Apr 30 - Bees, and independence
• Apr 28 - A rant concerning bees and poison
• Apr 22 - Harem: Notes and clarifications
• Apr 22 - Harem: Genesis
• Apr 20 - Average size of holdings
• Apr 19 - On the benefits of Exponential Land Tax
• Apr 17 - Hegemony and madness: I rage!
• Apr 16 - The Great Replumbing
• Apr 16 - A letter from a Wicked Uncle
• Apr 14 - The Winter Palace as philosophical object
• Apr 12 - Madness as symptom
• Apr 01 - Bother, said Pooh

2013 January

• Jan 11 - On land reform

2012 December

• Dec 02 - On the cost of housing

2012 April

• Apr 02 - On being mad

2012 March

• Mar 05 - Living in the Winter Palace, part two
• Mar 03 - Living in the Winter Palace, part one

2011 September

• Sept 26 - State of Play
• Sept 12 - Storm

2011 August

• Aug 17 - Fenestration
• Aug 17 - Plan B
• Aug 10 - Building plan for the Winter Palace
• Aug 10 - Towards a farming plan for the West Croft

2011 July

• Jul 27 - On heiding thistles
• Jul 22 - The state of social media
• Jul 18 - Haymaking

2011 June

• Jun 19 - In praise of Digital Audio Broadcasting
• Jun 18 - Introducing the Winter Palace
• Jun 11 - On war, and elites
• Jun 10 - Things I miss
• Jun 07 - Two referenda?
• Jun 06 - On living rough with cats

2011 May

• May 23 - Tactical retreat in the face of overwhelming force
• May 11 - The Summer Palace
• May 08 - Going straight
• May 06 - Wool gathering

2011 April

• Apr 29 - East wind
• Apr 17 - Planking the roof
• Apr 11 - Transport
• Apr 07 - Longeaves

2011 March

• Mar 26 - Shapes in the landscape, and aerodynamics
• Mar 21 - Singlespace joinery detail
• Mar 20 - Singlespace
• Mar 10 - The Plan
• Mar 08 - Clutching at straws
• Mar 08 - Home

2011 February

• Feb 27 - Review: Oehler, M: The Underground House Book
• Feb 20 - To cast or not to cast
• Feb 19 - Structure Review
• Feb 18 - The Fool on the Hill
• Feb 02 - On Yurts

2011 January

• Jan 23 - The Hide
• Jan 20 - Sousterrain revisited: there is a plan B
• Jan 18 - The joys of data transfer
• Jan 17 - End of eating dogfood

2010 November

• Nov 29 - Site specific low cost housing for a windy site
• Nov 18 - Practicalities of 'affordable' housing
• Nov 17 - A Just Price for housing

2010 March

• Mar 31 - Auf Essen in Deutschland

2009 December

• Dec 30 - Settling a game world

2009 November

• Nov 12 - When in Germany
• Nov 02 - The polemic, as detective story

2009 August

• Aug 20 - Days when I'm proud to be Scots

2009 March

• Mar 20 - Not quite a chip off the old block

2009 February

• Feb 16 - John Knox stirs in his grave

2008 October

• Oct 01 - Sex, adolescents and the law

2008 August

• Aug 23 - Medals, counting and chauvinism
• Aug 17 - It's not cricket!

2008 April

• Apr 26 - The spread of knowledge in a large game world
• Apr 04 - Worlds and Flats

2008 February

• Feb 27 - The Witcher: Story telling of a high order

2007 December

• Dec 08 - The best wee act of hegemony in the world

2007 May

• May 21 - Of Size, and Governance

2006 February

• Feb 20 - Post-scarcity Software

2005 December

• Dec 30 - CollabPRES: Local news for an Internet age

2004 December

• Dec 18 - A Journey to the turning of the year
• Dec 16 - Let's hear it for the Mullwarchar!
• Dec 13 - Spectacle and courage

2004 November

• Nov 23 - A lightweight 100% Java RDBMS
• Nov 20 - Using, not losing, your head
• Nov 18 - Lies, damned lies, and cycle helmets
• Nov 03 - This United Satrapy

2004 October

• Oct 30 - My longbow
• Oct 17 - Journey to the Roof of the World

2004 September

• Sept 08 - My first time trial
• Sept 05 - I make Amazon's top 1000!

2004 August

• Aug 26 - Oh, I completely give up!
• Aug 20 - A weirdly enjoyable afternoon
• Aug 20 - #1 Road C
• Aug 17 - Review: Cannondale Jekyll 700
• Aug 13 - Grin factor nine

2004 July

• Jul 27 - A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea

2004 June

• Jun 30 - Fixing the holes in Sun's APIs
• Jun 27 - Happiness is a Filthy Bicycle
• Jun 24 - When we have independence we can...