My Work

Some of my work and writing is available below. Please ensure you see the site information for information on copyright and other legal matters. [PDF] indicates that the item is available only in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format. For more information on my career, please see my CV.

Technical Articles and Work

• Who Ya Gonna Call? [PDF] — TechConnect 2006 entry, with Chris Tomkins.
• Subversive Componentization — TechConnect 2005 entry.
• Why password aging is dangerous.
• A Quick Tutorial on Generating a Huffman Tree.
• A primer on the horizontal retrace which I wrote after writing a program to optimize display on VGA monitors.
• A review of the Creative Labs Nomad (or D.A.P.) Jukebox, with some tips if you already own one.
• Some tips on using SpamAssassin.
• I have made small contributions to the dia open-source diagramming software.

Academic and Industrial

• My MEng Individual Project on Web Server Performance Simulation.
• A project on queueing theory which I wrote with two colleagues in the first year at university.
• A project on the National Lottery [PDF] which I completed for A-Level Statistics.
• A presentation [PDF] I gave at ApoApsis on object-relational mapping in Java. The presentation is a bit wordy and not really self-explanatory. Sorry about that.

Personal

The self-indulgence section.

• My mini-site for Isaac Asimov's Robot books and stories. I constructed this ages ago, but it isn't maintained much anymore.
• A complete solution to the LucasArts computer game Day of the Tentacle which I wrote with a friend in 1995.
• Some weirdness — Madness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I was young and strange, as was my co-author. Just don't ask.
• The Bored Colander and the Sad and Tragic Tale of His Girlfriend the Bisexual Naive Nutmeg — Written for a friend's birthday.