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. It's probably out of date now, of course.

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. Here are some of my favourites:

The "best of" category on my blog contains what I think is my best writing on the subject of religion (and other things).
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.
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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