The Fool on the Hill

TL;DR: In future, my blog will be here . No further entries will be published on this site. From 2004 until 17 January 2011, I ran my blog o...

  View from my bedroom window Storm Arwen tore through my wood on Friday night, and caused very significant damage. There is no significant ...

Motivation Climate models are normally built to do real science; that is not my aim. Rather, I want something which will form a compo...

Lytton burns The climate, globally, is warming. Everyone acknowledges that. It’s not warming equally, or consistently, or evenly; I thin...

Scotland's land.  OK, yes, it is my croft. The white saviours, led by Benedict Macdonald , are again taking up the white man's burde...

A blast furnace in operation From the discovery of iron working techniques, about 3,200 years ago, up until the widespread exploitation of f...

the rookie, quick Let's suppose for a moment that you're a member -- the most junior member, the rookie -- of a squad. Your squad ma...

A Cyberpunk 2077 character in T pose I have no inside information about the development of Cyberpunk 2077, but I am a software engineer with...

Johnny, Panam, Vixen This is the first essay I've written on Cyberpunk 2077; I doubt it will be the last – indeed, I hope it won't, ...

A review of Dimopoulus, Konstantinos: Virtual Cities ; Unbound, London, 2020 . ISBN 978-1-78352-848-6. The Pelennor Fields around Minas Tiri...

Emma Appleton as Renfri There's a princess. She has a stepmother. Her stepmother has a magic mirror that always tells the truth. Her ste...

Red Grouse ( source ) I got into a foolish Twitter dispute last night, and ended up saying something I fundamentally think to be true . Peop...