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The Freesteel Blog The work and spill-over into everything blog (most activity goes on here)

Undemocracy.com and The Public Whip Major civic hacking projects

Kayak Diving Index Specialized page just on this subject

The Myron Ebell Climate Proxy blog chronicling this man's part in the suicide of the species

Wikified Tunnel documentation Cave drawing program undergoing improvements

What's newest

• Intro-Mediate Anglesey Kayak, June 2008 A fine weekend using the proper equipment
• Crewe and Nantwich by-election, May 2008 Being there to get out the record.
• Skye June 2007 The dive kayaking duo go to some remote locations and lochs.
• St Abbs July 2007 Finishing off Scotland at the easy place.

Nearby Trips

• Diving (also available on the Kayak Diving index page).
  • Intro-Mediate Anglesey Kayak, June 2008 A fine weekend using the proper equipment
  • St Abbs July 2007 Finishing off Scotland at the easy place.
  • Skye June 2007 The dive kayaking duo in some remote locations and lochs.
  • Plymouth July 2006 Ten days with dive kayaking and some near perfect weather.
  • St Abbs October 2005 Short trip, nothing special, but it's a reccie for the summer.
  • North Wales Weekends 2004/5. Mostly for the pictures from several short trips.
  • Kayak Dive Ireland July 2004. I've always wanted to do that.
  • A Marine Identification Course Ireland July 2004. The pictures are pretty, but the words got out of control during the ramble.
  • Diving Kayaks Win Lleyn August 2003. Out again with my camera. Probably the one that's worth reading.
  • Pembroke Kayak Diving Nuts June 2003. With some trials in Anglesey. UK underwater piccies, but no story because nothing went badly wrong.
  • Kayak diving April 2002. My first two weeks with my own two boats.
  • Cosmo's Boat in Liverpool Bay, Summer 2000.
• Spring 2006 Some jaunts before the summer begins.
• North Wales Spring 2003. With pictures, although the text gets side-tracked into Underwater Rugby and the Church of Stop Shopping.
• Leeds-Liverpool Canal October 2000. Nice write up of a muddy cycling trip.
• Isle of Man June 2000. Following Clive and Sarah on their tandem up steep hills.
• Scrapbook Tour of the house Becka and I live in. You can't get more nearby than that. (Not updated since 2000. The hedge is quite a bit bigger.)

Far Away Trips

• China May 2005. Picture story of caving in China. Declared done.
• Thailand April 2005. Stopping over on a generic tropical island paradise on the way to some horrible caving in China.
• Austria Summer 2004. Back to normal caving on the Loser Plateau again.
• Austria January 2004. Finally a ski trip to Austria to where we go caving.
• January 2003. Just some random pictures from that month of caving, diving, and riding a bus to Europe.
• USA summer 2002
  • Clarion 2002. Just one of those Science Fiction writing courses that I got onto in Michigan for six weeks in the summer.
  • Utah July 2002. Post-Clarion desert tourism with Becka in the Parks.
  • California August 2002. The west coast skid against the will of the Becka.
  • Montana August 2002. Final installment in the mountains written up a little late in the day.
• Norway Christmas 2001. Some plenty good XC skiing on this one when it wasn't too dark. Warning: most of the materials outside of the pictures is just plain ranting.
• New Zealand Semester
  • New Zealand February 2001. Escape from the Northern winter with the help of teleworking technology.
  • New Zealand end-February 2001. The rail-trail experience.
  • New Zealand begin-March 2001. Dunedin Living.
  • New Zealand end-March 2001. Mount Despising.
• Morocco New Year 2001. A recce caving trip where we met friendly locals and learnt some important things. Warning: this pages comes with a heavy helping of advice.
• New Orleans November 2000. A trip to a psychology conference. (I'd only look at the pictures if I were you.)
• Cambodia and South Vietnam Dec/Jan 1998-99. Three weeks visiting Becka's parents on VSO.
• Israel and Jordan January 1997. You could call this a honeymoon.
• Canyoning in France August 1995. Early write up, no pictures.
• Austrian Caving in 1993. One of my many unsatisfying hang-gliding trips.

Political Material.

• Crewe and Nantwich by-election, May 2008 Being there to get out the record.
• Condoleezza Rice comes to Liverpool, March 2006 It was an honour to be there in the street.
• The Public Whip All the votes cast in the UK Parliament by MPs since 1997, so that the public, not just the parties, can have a chance to whip them. I helped write this.
• TheyWorkForYou.com All the speeches in the debates in the UK Parliament spoken by MPs since 2001, with commenting ability. I helped with this too, as it uses a byproduct of the work from Publicwhip.
• The Myron Ebell Climate A thoroughly disgusting think-tank man and conspiracy nut who is one of the instruments through which Exxon damages the world.
• Parliament Square Protest Rights How Parliament denied the public the right of protest within sight of the government and representatives. Also avaiable as a poster.
• Parliametary Iraq Votes 2003 The complete motions, votes and excerpts from the debates pre- and post-invastion. A big poster, with the names of the guilty, as displayed on Brian's board in Parliament Square can be downloaded as 1.4Mb A0-size poster in PowerPoint.
• Watch Bustani 2003 A compilation of Parliamentary documents questioning the sacking of this UN official. Uses innovative HTML folding text technology.
• Mayday 2002 Introduction to anarchy on the streets of London.
• Faslane January 2002 Return to Faslane where less got done but with more ranting.
• Trafalgar Square November 18, 2001 Stop the War demonstration in London. So much for democracy.
• Faslane October 22, 2001 Where I developed the doctrine that the Trident nuclear warheads are aimed at Britain. You think this is crazy? It's not as crazy as the official position, I claim.
• London September 11, 2001 Anti weapons export protest, ruined by the police on the day war was declared. With Postscript.
• Bonn July 2001 Bonn Kyoto Protest. Postscript: Carbon Extraction Quotas

Programs available

• TunnelX tutorial and downloading.
• Fat Worm Blows a Sparky At one time in 1986 I wrote this strange computer game. Read what I think now.
• jEEG, an experimental EEG data analyser (hosted by Sourceforge).

Published Science Fiction

Not a huge amount, but quantity shouldn't be hugely important.

• The Monoxide Age printed in Not One of Us, Issue #33 Which was written in the first week of Clarion.
• Mine the Primes printed in The Elastic Book of Numbers Which was written in the second week of Clarion. Interestingly, the editor flat rejected this at first, and then asked for it back several months later. Most readers are probably not getting it first time either, so it's mentioned in only some of their reviews (like [1] and [2])

Unpublished Science Fiction of interest

• The Seize Day When the oil runs out, where will you be?
• Joule Heating and the Conductivity Ellipsoid The nature of the universe and death
• The Teep-talk Maker A fast invention for a fast buck in the manufacturing cycle.
• The Xenon Penny Sing for you supper, for a pocket full of dimes/ Build a little city where it isn't very dry

Front page links to the rest of the web

• Democracy Now Top quality radio from New York that beats the evening news
• Bloggerheads A copious blog.
• This American Life From WBEZ in Chicago, a series of excellent audio programmes better than you get on Radio 4.
• This is Hell radio Very great merit
• Mythic Beasts The very reasonable ISP that hosts this web page.

julian@goatchurch.org.uk.
2008-08-22 ... Julian Todd.