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What’s the definition of "a child"? Google tells me that "it’s a young person of either sex", but how young is "young"? That question should really be answered before I can give some sort of meaningful answer to the original … Continue reading →

So I’ve been invited to the alpha of the new Digg. So far, it looks quite good. Indeed, it has a feature which allows you to auto-submit everything in your feed to Digg, in order that it will appear in … Continue reading →

Quite a hard question that – not just because there are so many historical figures, but because I’m terrible at history and don’t know many. If I did know many, by the way, I’d just give you a short answer … Continue reading →

So I’m back from my holiday in “somewhere near Inverness”. I say “somewhere” because in the Highlands of Scotland, you don’t get fancy placenames for everywhere, you just get rough placenames. And you don’t get exactly where you want with a … Continue reading →

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0. Unfortunately, I still have the default WP theme (only now it’s the new default theme). Fortunately, I like WordPress 3′s default theme more, and it might encourage me to post more often (though I … Continue reading →

You’ve reached the home of Andrew Johnston (aorkwa) on the internet, which is updated all too infrequently and might look a bit neglected. Sorry about that. I’m currently working on a WordPress theme to go with this site – in … Continue reading →

It started as just a personal wiki for me to revise from. But then it expanded outwards and upwards, and got its own subdomain – revision.aorkwa.com. A little DokuWiki installation so I could share and collaborate on revision notes. But … Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is an event held in November every year which challenges you to write a 50,000-word novel in the thirty days of November. And this year, I’m taking part. Of course, NaNoWriMo involves a lot … Continue reading →

If anyone has been near my about page recently, they’ll know that up to now it has consisted of “(nothing yet)” on a white background. Well, guess what? (And you know it must have something to do with the title) … Continue reading →