Advertise with Googlier.com The latest blog posts from my website, charlieharvey.org.uk http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/smokeandmirrors_immersive <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/projects/smokeandmirrors.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form pieces, Smoke and Mirrors. Cooking smoke is responsible for a staggering amount of deaths in the world — more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined. Not only that, the need for wood c</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/smokeandmirrors_immersive Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:59:29 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_030405_reading <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-walkaway.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Doctorow is both an entertaining author and very much on the right (by which I mean left/anarchist) side of politics. His futuristic utopia is set in a world where people are kept artificially poor in the midst of post scarcity merely to keep the capit</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_030405_reading Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:09:09 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/twatbegone_userscript <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/twatbegone.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A while ago, my buddy Oxguin was thinking about the blocking on Twitter, specifically because of Donald Trump. What happens, you see, is that when Trump says something twattish, as he is wont to do, all the non-twattish people on Twitter start telling him how much of a twat he is for saying it.</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/twatbegone_userscript Mon, 1 May 2017 21:24:39 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/hipster_menu_crafter <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="https://static.pexels.com/photos/6969/sunset-summer-hipster-pipe.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have taken over even once proudly grim local boozers, it seemed important to invent a tool to generate hipster menu items. And it should be written in vintage javascript, of course.So let me pres</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/hipster_menu_crafter Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:03:33 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_0102_reading <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-pirate-utopia.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Bruce Sterling is that other cyberpunk author. He is back to writing counterfactual alternative histories examining what may have been had things just happened to turn out slightly differently (cf. steampunk bible and Victorian romp The Differen</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_0102_reading Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:01:52 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/ssh_escape_hung_session <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/ssh-book.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Here is a quick SSH tip that I only discovered a month or two ago despite years of using SSH on a daily basis. When SSH freezes, as can sometimes happen if the network connection drops, it is possible to kill the connection more elegantly than just by closing the terminal tab (my previous way of dea</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/ssh_escape_hung_session Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:46:09 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/solving_binary_pussles_with_haskell <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/binary-puzzle.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">I first came across binary puzzles in early 2013 after finding a book of them in a Belgian supermarket, not long after I first came across Haskell. And I believe that I've now published the first solver for binary puzzles written in Haskell. And it only took 3 years ;-)The puzzles are a little lik</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/solving_binary_pussles_with_haskell Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:09:12 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_12_reading <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/anglo-saxons.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This is a pretty comprehensive 'brief' history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the decline of the Romano-British culture in (what we now call) England up until the arrival of the Normans and indeed beyond. Hindley investigates</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_12_reading Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:17:51 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_11_reading <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/silas-marner.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This novel was one of a trove I inherited from my parents, a gift for my mother on her 20th birthday. It tells the story of a weaver, formerly a religious nonconformist and now miser, who discovers a meaning in life other than gold when an orphan c</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_11_reading Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:37:43 -0000 http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/goodbye_twitterfeed_hallo_rsstwit <img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/twitterfeed.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly prose, it announced the demise of the service which turned RSS feeds into Tweets and recommended moving to dlvr.it or Buffer. We’re writing to let you know that Twitterfeed wi</p><p style="clear:both;"> </p> Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/goodbye_twitterfeed_hallo_rsstwit Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:04:59 -0000