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Retrospectives on past technology, the history of computing, and looking back at where we came from.
2024-12-15
Wrapping Up the Year
2024-03-21
NWIT Retrospective
2023-12-24
Wrapping Up the Year
2022-12-24
Comes Round Again
2021-12-31
Comes Round Again
2021-11-23
Not What I Set Out to Do
2021-10-03
Three Weeks Off
2021-07-22
Whatever Happened to TidyBlocks?
2021-04-17
Nine Weeks Off
2020-08-07
Hi Greg, It's Your Conscience Speaking
2019-08-05
Computational Science Education (1996 edition)
2019-05-24
Words and Hours
2019-02-16
Late Binding
2018-02-07
Changes
2017-12-30
The Year in Review
2016-12-24
2016 in Review
2016-09-21
What I Wish I'd Read
2016-08-26
What I Didn't Learn in a CS Degree
2015-12-28
Plans for 2016
2015-12-06
How the Year Went
2015-09-26
Plus Ça Change
2015-06-14
Where the Time Goes (Version 2)
2015-01-01
Things I Won't Do This Year
2012-12-05
Six Years Later
2012-03-03
A Week of Retroactive Accountability
2012-01-14
So, Greg, What Are You Up To These Days?
2011-05-14
More Interested in the Asides
2011-01-23
A Week of Public Accountability
2010-08-03
Open Source, Open Science in 1999
2010-03-22
Robin Milner: 1934-2010
2010-01-10
How We Got Here, and Where We Are
2009-08-01
Post-Mortem
2009-05-01
The Week in Review
2009-01-26
Where My Time Is Going
2009-01-11
Where My Time Goes
2008-12-24
40 Years Ago
2008-11-20
Happy 25th Birthday, TurboPascal
2008-01-01
Best of 2007
2007-10-02
Doomed to Repeat It