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I was pleased to see that one of the space ships in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Causal Angel" was called the "Bob Howard"....
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Intel CPUs used to have a very useful on-chip HWRNG. ID Quantique make add-on hardware sources in card and USB formats. They actually use shot-noise from illuminated photodiodes as the noise source, because the expected behaviour is rather easily calculated...
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Possibly because heartbleed is only an issue for https, and this is a http site....
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You can see the effect of latitude on the treeline very clearly in the New Zealand subantarctic. In the South Island, trees grow well up the mountains, certainly over 1,000m. In the Auckland Islands, a day by boat to the...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)