I’ve been having something of a digital spring clean. Moving web hosts was long overdue but while we’re at it why not clean out the whole stack? So my old…
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The Venice Time Machine is an interesting project underway at the Digital Humanities Lab of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The team have embarked on a ten year digitisation…
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Last year I went searching for a new web hosting provider. My criteria was very specific and in fact I only found one company in a position to fulfil it…
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The History and Future of Everything is a beautiful infographic movie showing the increasingly vast timescales of Big History. The work is a collaboration between the blog WaitButWhy and the information…
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There’s a long tradition with online journals (I’ve never really liked the term “blogging”) of reflecting on the old year before starting fresh with the new. So as it’s new…
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Although The Computus Engine launched back in January 2008, I’ve been writing on the web since 2000. Back then I had a site called crashposition.com and each post was basically…
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The Computus Engine is moving to a new hosting company over the Christmas holiday. If you’re reading this then we’re up and running again on GreenQloud. Please excuse the mess…
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I gave a talk last Thursday at Worthing Digital entitled ‘Fast Slim Correct: The Evolution of JavaScript’. The story I wanted to tell was how a simple web scripting language has broken…