Consider these midway between rants and waving the flag of surrender. These are thoughts on techie things. If you're not interested in that area of human endeavour, but you are interested in other rants, try the main writings section.
| An HP Deskjet 610, a scanner, and some network printing | or, No, you need new hardware. And new drivers. No, you can't do that. No. |
| Floppy handling under Linux | or, Do people still use floppies? |
| What the hell is Python? | or, an article for Content People |
| Software patents | or, Stamp out coders who don't work for massive conglomerates, by order |
| DNS for DHCPed machines on Smoothwall | or, Address your machines by name without effort |
| Lame Flash games | or, 0wning high-score tables, a kiddie's guide |
| Attention to detail | or, Improving lives through code |
| Pingback | or, The Pingback Specification |
| Recovery | or, sweaty and unwarranted relief |
| EUCD | or, unelected government |
| Semantic web | or, X is related to Y and Y is related to Z |
| Whacking the web | or, Technical competence wins through |
| The Perfect Worm | or, What not to do when you find an exploit |
| Privacy in the UK | or, Please let me keep a secret, Mr Prime Minister |
| Magic Pixie Dust | or, Does the magic bullet of Open Source actually work? |