Poetry
- Ghazal: "Quiet"
Original Date: February 2010Last Updated: Mon Feb 15 2010 22:35 GMTA ghazal with the refrain "quiet".
- What the Blind Man Sees
Original Date: Early August 2006Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA uncharacteristically optimistic and social poem; probably because it was co-written with and based on an idea by Ser.
- Fractured Logics
Original Date: January 2006Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA fractured logic could be one in which there are islands of provably true and untrue statements seperated by deep rivers of the unprovably true and unprovably untrue, surrounded by a vast sea of the meaningless.
This is a kind of love song without a tune. It has an accompaniment described by the colour of streetlights reflecting off snowdrifts in the north of England at around 2am. - A Modern Ozymandias
Original Date: Some time in 2000, I thinkLast Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA tribute and a respectful parody of P. B. Shelley's poem "Ozymandias". The poem grew from the first and last verses and eventually met in the middle. For bonus points, spot the Terry Pratchett reference.
Non-Fiction
- SugarCRM/LDAP HOWTO
Original Date: May 2007Last Updated: Mon May 21 2007 17:29 BSTA rather terse walkthrough on setting up OpenLDAP to read contacts from SugarCRM's contacts database under MySQL5.
- How to install Rhapsody DR2 in VMWare
Original Date: October 2006Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA walkthrough of a method to install Apple's old Rhapsody Developer Release 2 Operating System under the VMWare virtualisation system.
Downright Mysterious
- Seven
Original Date: November 2004Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA manifesto for human-computer and human-human interaction; an accidental prophecy; an accurate nonsense; a memo and a memory.
Fiction
- Awkward Situation no. 23
Original Date: September 2003Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTThings not to do in the Science Museum.
- Attack of the Clowns (excerpt)
Original Date: Early 2004Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTGalactic Blunder II; a partial sequel to the now-lost Cyberbunnies video "Galactic Blunder". Co-written with Adam Peckham.
- Northern Brown Argus
Original Date: April 2004Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTThe birth of the character Artaxerxes through the concept of rotation. Probably the nearest thing to the stone language without actually living it.
- Polyphemos
Original Date: Early 2002Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA memory of being someone's monster. An early piece, so has rough edges.
- Snapshots
Original Date: Mid 2002Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTBoth depressing and ridiculous at the same time. Contains IRC. Written during a depression several years ago, so has rough edges.
- They Found Saddam Hussein
Original Date: Some time in 2003Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTNot entirely sure where this came from. It just happened.
Translations
- Petrarch's Canzoniere (Rime Sparse) 102 - Verse Translation
Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTMy new translation of Petrarch's Rime Sparse 102; this time in something that hopefully approximates English verse.
- The Cave of Sleep (from Metamorphoses XI)
Original Date: April 2002Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTNot so much a translation as a cinematic paraphrase of an extract from the story of Ceyx and Alcyone in Ovid's Metamorphoses XI. Doesn't really do the original justice.
- Rime Sparse 102
Last Updated: Mon Jan 1 2007 00:06 GMTA translation of Petrarch's Rime Sparse 102 from the Italian into modern English, originally made in 2001 and updated to read better in August 2006.
