In which we discuss a topical flaw
                  Published at 8:34 am on December 19th, 2021
                  Filed under: Geekery, Technology.
                  
                
                In  many ways I lead a charmed life and hold a wide range of privileges in my hand.  Not least, this week just gone, the fact that I’m a software developer who generally works with the .NET software stack.  More specifically, I am not a software developer who works with Java.  Java developers have not, generally speaking, been having a good week.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: programming, software, security, hackers, E Shrdlu.
                  
                
              
              
                
                  
                  Or, some of your questions answered
                  Published at 9:18 pm on October 14th, 2020
                  Filed under: Meta.
                  
                
                Time to answer some of the questions that have been sent in over the month or so since I revived this site.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: Readers Letters, Battle of Hastings, history, counterfactual, alternate timeline, Cymru, Wales, Books I Haven't Read, Francis Bennion, E Shrdlu, blogging, Sarah from Ipswich.
                  
                
              
              
                
                  
                  In which things get into a circular reference
                  Published at 9:14 am on January 2nd, 2010
                  Filed under: Artistic, Geekery, Meta.
                  
                
                Things go around in circles. This site has been quiet for a while in the past, more than once, and it will probably happen again in the future at some point. I can’t tell when, but it will probably happen.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: Yuletide, Christmas, circularity, Douglas Hofstadter, E Shrdlu, The Plain People Of The Internet, Godel Escher Bach, infinite loop, ouroboros, self-reference.
                  
                
              
              
                
                  
                  In which we anticipate a holiday
                  Published at 11:14 pm on January 14th, 2008
                  Filed under: Dear Diary.
                  
                
                I’ve already told this to just about everyone, because I’m bouncing up and down already. In a few weeks time, we’re off on holiday. To Riga! I thought I’d mention it here, though, just to say: if any readers know anything good to do in Riga in winter, let me know. I know it’s a long-shot, but you never know who reads this and where they’ve been.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: E Shrdlu, holiday, Latvia, Riga, travel.
                  
                
              
              
                
                  
                  In which the readers speak up and demand photos
                  Published at 9:58 pm on October 23rd, 2007
                  Filed under: Geekery, Photobloggery, Trains.
                  
                
                Here at Symbolic Towers, we pay attention to our readers. If they send in tips, we pass them on. Mr E Shrdlu of Clacton writes…
                  
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                  Keyword noise: E Shrdlu, The Plain People Of The Internet, Grosmont, London, London Underground, nonsense, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, NYMR, photography, railway, secret, secret tunnels, trains, underground, Yorkshire.