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Stob latest: IEEE flags dodgy paper

Cleaning up after peer review

19 Sep 14:15

Educating Verity

Stob A breeze is riffling academia's pubic hair

13 Sep 17:51

How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer

Stob If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?

7 Jul 09:02

A reading from the second book of Codh

Stob Embarcadero takes on the Sons of Kahnanrado

26 May 08:02

The missing five-minute Linux manual for morons

Stob Resista the Vista

14 Apr 09:02

Doctor Who and the moody Dane

Stob Hey non nonny, nonny

25 Feb 09:02

Her Light Materials, Volume I

Stob The Lost Magic Golden Closing Curly Bracket

20 Jan 01:13

The art of software murder

Stob When good apps turn bad

20 Dec 10:23

Programming with Marigold gloves on

Stob Martha Stewart clicks your button

13 Nov 09:02

An unsatisfactory meal in County Antrim

Stob Relishing the luxuries of business executive travel

9 Oct 08:02

Hey Mr Policeman - this car is stolen!

Windows Genuine Advantage is broken - again

28 Aug 2007, 21:52

In the beginning, there was the flowchart...

Stob Software diagramming - a warning from history

16 Aug 2007, 12:45

Comments are disabled

Stob Ignore Diogenes, he's just trolling

17 Jul 2007, 09:02

Beyond the valley of the drolls

Stob Please quote me on this

18 Jun 2007, 11:27

More fables for our time

Stob Moral tales with added anthropomorphic anarchy

6 May 2007, 06:02

Absolutely SFW

Stob A sermon on modern safety

9 Apr 2007, 17:43

Unhelpful Microsoft help denies helpless millions help

Stob What does this button do?

8 Mar 2007, 15:16

When Mercury went down

Stob Life and times of an email nag

6 Feb 2007, 12:19

Was that the 2007 that was?

Now let’s dumb down futurology too

3 Jan 2007, 13:36

Yuletide Weblog roundup

Stob We all like bloggy pudding

4 Dec 2006, 13:10

Under Torch Wood

Stob A parody for voices

6 Nov 2006, 11:46

Oh my Word

Stob It looks like Verity's writing an article

4 Oct 2006, 09:42

Poetry in slow motion

Stob A Betjeman fan challenges the current laureate

4 Sep 2006, 08:54

Out of the (C++) loop

Stob Goto considered risible

8 Aug 2006, 11:05

House style

Stob Hands off the keyboard: it's in crash

7 Jul 2006, 13:39

Hexadecimal coinages

Stob From eh to zee with Veritee

7 Jun 2006, 18:02

C++/CLI: a paradigm too far

Stob Microsoft's new albino jumbo

5 May 2006, 08:12

Skunkworks roundup

Stob It's a far, far beta thing

5 Apr 2006, 13:53

Borland's Delphi goodbye

Stob Farewell my lovely

7 Mar 2006, 10:14

The unbearable not-rightness of Bitesize

Stob Whence cometh the 'C' in 'ICT'

13 Feb 2006, 13:25

Good enough for kids

Stob How the BBC's GCSE site makes IT up

6 Feb 2006, 15:57

Catch as catch can

Stob A light-hearted look at exception handling

11 Jan 2006, 12:42

Candid Dalek shares thesp titbits

Stob Isn't 'Davros' in Switzerland?

1 Dec 2005, 16:17

Data transfer without tears

Stob Or cheese. Of any description

13 May 2004, 14:31

Stob: Dylan Beard is not weird

Stob Free number radical speaks to El Reg

23 Feb 2004, 16:01

Stob: Pirated 'Wron number yours for free

Stob McDosh condemns Beard's 'numerical terrorism'

20 Feb 2004, 14:28

Stob: Number patents Euro-endorsed

Stob Bonjour la tristesse

19 Feb 2004, 12:43

Stob: McDosh hires Titbits

Stob Softwron primes its legal seagull

18 Feb 2004, 11:51

Stob: Softwron number stolen

Stob Lost weapon of maths destruction

17 Feb 2004, 12:55

Stob: You have opted in

Stob Oh yes you have

16 Jan 2004, 09:58

Stob: Something for the ladies

Stob Overdoing the sweet sherry

15 Jan 2004, 13:46

Stob: Why men buy blue pills

They’re for a friend

14 Jan 2004, 13:09

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