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What's that sound?
6 September 2026
Institutions shifting away from big tech
25 January 2026
Pangolin, Newt, Gerbil and custom ports
4 October 2025
Trying out the Nurosym vagus nerve stimulator for a couple of weeks
24 August 2025
We Are Terrible at Online Identity Management (or: Using Emails as An Identifier Was a Bad Move)
26 July 2023
Good computer networking kit
25 March 2022
Aiming for downtime
2 January 2022
What if downloads are not actually non-rivalrous?
10 December 2021
Replacing OpenVPN with Wireguard, including on Synology devices
20 August 2021
Mesh on a budget: converting RBR50 to RBS50 units and using LBR20 for 4G fallback
28 July 2021
Moog Minitaur: the editor and exclusive USB lock
13 April 2021
Subscriptions for software and commodity fetishism
8 April 2021
How to fix a broken Crumar Bit99 synthesizer
27 March 2021
Running the PreSonus Quantum interfaces on Windows 7
26 April 2019
A missing audio hardware device
6 April 2019
M-Audio Trigger Finger Pro synchronisation problems
14 October 2018
An important note if you have a Lenovo G580
7 May 2017
How to do a hard reset on a Jaybird Reign
28 December 2015
Disable "incoming call" voice announcement on the Nexus 6
20 June 2015
"A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
20 January 2015
Tied to the mast? A response to RMS's principles for loyal computers
19 December 2014
Discussing/annotating The History Manifesto and the open access effect(?)
5 November 2014
Things academia.edu (@academia) should do (hint: work with green OA)
5 September 2014
"Every generation has its philosopher"
19 January 2014
Why I'm a fan of open source software: An argument by anecdote/example
27 December 2013
Fixing broken spellcheck in Thunderbird 24
30 September 2013
Using git in my writing workflow
18 August 2013
Can't receive emails from Hotmail: fixing their buggy DNS process
6 September 2012
Astrid and Producteev
6 September 2012
Quibbling with the LRB over "Hackers"
3 September 2012
Re-Decentralizing the Web
2 September 2012
What app.net has to teach scholarly publishing: altruism has been forgotten and everything is a "product"
14 August 2012
Another great source for free images to use in blogging
24 June 2012
Beware the next wave of academic publishing grimness: apps.
21 May 2012
Wikipedia Stats Visualized
18 March 2012
Wordpress for Academics
9 February 2012
I've gone to IPv6
23 January 2012
Protecting Your Assets: Backing up your Academic Work
23 January 2012
Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets!
28 November 2011
The Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 Hoax
6 October 2011
Dropbox: you've missed the real problem
5 July 2011
Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done
14 June 2011
Things to do when you get a new Android phone
14 March 2011
Richard Stallman at the University of Sussex
9 March 2011
Open Hardware: the Netgear WNR3500L
18 February 2011
Android and Eduroam
9 February 2011
On #PhDchat: Call for Collaboration/History, Overview, Themes and Response
2 February 2011
What has social media ever done for me?
26 January 2011
OCZ RevoDrive on Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI
21 January 2011
Getting a custom Sync Service and Adapter to show up under "Data and Synchronization" on Android
14 January 2011
Mendeley Android Client: now implemented as a user account with sync
5 January 2011
Using Producteev to manage overbearing Inboxes
15 December 2010
Converting Zotero Documents to Mendeley
8 December 2010
The Problems of Copyleft, Twitter and Tweets
4 November 2010
Using British Library wifi when DHCP fails
27 October 2010
Using tech to help with structure
3 April 2010
Dark cloud looming
14 March 2010
Thomas Pynchon critical bibliography Zotero group
13 March 2010
Convert Excel to Serif Webplus SDB format
3 October 2008