Things I have written
I've written some articles and things, some of which live on
this site and some on my
LiveJournal.
Technical and Internet things
Spam
filtering: a whistle stop tour is more or less what it
says. Kuro5hin's users
liked it enough to vote it on to their front page.
Spam filtering using the DCC
and Exim on my Debian Linux system. A brief HOWTO.
Religion
I'm an ex-Christian, formerly part of CICCU
and St Andrew the Great. I write
about this a bit as a way of working my thoughts through.
I got started by writing my Losing My Religion essay, which explains how I got into and got out of the church, and
why. Contains quotations from Aleister Crowley and
Peter Gabriel.
Since leaving the church, I've written more about Christianity and religion in general on my blog. As well as the articles below, you might also want to look my blog postings about religion and at my LiveJournal
Memories in the Religion category, which contains other people's
posts I found interesting or commented on. Here are some of my favourites:
- God Told Me To Do It, an entry in which I discuss Hell.
- Rilstone on Gay
Bishops, an article about Andrew Rilstone's
article about gay bishops (and thence about two differing views of
what the Church of England is for). In the comments, we got into a
discussion of what modern Jews think is the purpose of keeping the Torah
(that's the OT Law, if you're a Christian).
- A thread on Livre d'Or's journal in which we talk about whether evangelicalism is too intellectual, just what Christians do think you have to do or believe to be saved, why some Christians think the historicity of the Bible is so important, and lots of other stuff.
- Evangelicals
on the starboard bow: in which I have a chat with
someone from CICCU and
use lots of sci-fi references. Collect them all and win a prize.
- A
review of The Sea of Faith by Don Cupitt. Don
Cupitt still hasn't found what I'm looking for. But it's an
interesting book.
- Inerrant
words, a thread in Shreena's
LiveJournal. This started off being about the
Government's plans to give "faith groups" a consulting role in
government, and ended up with me trying to explain
evangelicalism to a Jewish person, with some interesting points
raised along the way.
Everything else
No
more crying then: Vernor Vinge's Singularity compared to
Christian eschatology.
A few years ago, I did a physics
degree. About the only thing you can see of that here is Quantum confinement effects in semi-conductor
clusters (PDF file), my 4th year physics project about excitons
in very small particles of semiconductors and how to predict their
energies using the Empircal Pseudopotential Method. Mostly a rehash of
someone else's stuff, but here in case anyone might find it useful.
Ignore the date in the document: it was submitted in 1998 but the date
on it is when I made the PDF.
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