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  • 21 December 2011: To mark my shift to a new ISP and the beginning of 2012 I have revised my home page. If you have been here before you will see that I have simplified it a lot, in the hope of making navigation easier. Feel free to comment on my blog.

  • Please see this page for recently added book reviews.

  • 27 September 2011: I'm updating my experience with Xmonad on my blog. There is currently a screenshot and the relevant configuration file available.

  • 6 September 2011: I've recently switched to a tiling window manager, Xmonad. I've described my experience of making this change here.

  • 11 February 2011: I've added FAQs for acupuncture (professionals and patients)

  • 10 February 2011 Making Word.doc files in Linux
    This book explains how to produce Word.doc files in Linux, necessary for anyone who wants to publish ebooks on Smashwords.

  • 21 January 2011 So You Want To Try Acupuncture?
    I have just published this book, which is intended to give the basic information needed by anyone who is thinking of having acupuncture.

  • 27 December 2010 My book Medical Acupuncture: A Practical Guide is now available as a PDF, Price £11.50.

  • 27 August 2010: Two poems written a long time ago; just came across them in an old file. I've included them in Occasional Pieces.

  • 22 August 2010: Religion as Parasite, Parasite as Religion. This essay won a runners-up prize in a recent competition in The Skeptic magazine.

  • 1 March 2010: I've just posted a report of my experience of setting up a tunnel to a vpn server on Linux-Debian .

  • 17 November 2009: All my books are now available as e-books. Please go to my Home Page for further details.

  • 5 June 2009: My new book Religion, Language, Narrative and the Search for Meaning is now published and available for purchase either as a print copy or as an ebook. Please see this page for further details.

  • 15 July 2008: I've uploaded a description of the steps I take to write Greek (both modern and "polutonic" with vim and latex. Please go to my Linux page.

  • 1 July 2008: My new book The Assassins of Alamut is now published. Please see this page. It is a historical study of the Ismaili sect known as the Assassins, and includes a chapter about their strange beliefs.

  • 15 April 2008: My new book Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination is now out and available for purchase. Please see this page, which includes links to reviews.

  • 11 March 2008: My book Homeopathy in Perspective is now available for purchase. Please go to this page.

  • 12 June 2007: I've added a piece about the experiences that have led me to my present position of scepticism about many of the claims made for complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). Please see Come Back Science, All is Forgiven, in Occasional Pieces.

  • 10 April 2007: I've updated my page on installing Linux on a Thinkpad Z61M to reflect my experience with Sidux.

  • 22 March 2007: I've introduced a new page here: Occasional Pieces. It's where I shall post articles and other pieces that don't fit into any particular category. The first of these is Microrobots, a kind of science fiction.

  • I usually add to my blog once or twice a week, sometimes more than one new article in a day. So keep checking back.

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