Welcome to Adam Sampson's web pages.
Sections
- Code: free software that I've written.
- Music: my main hobby these days.
- Tech Notes: occasional notes on technical matters.
- Publications: my academic work.
- Recipes: things my friends and I like to cook.
- Books: brief reviews of books I've read.
- Ideas: things I've not done yet.
Articles
- Some of the software I use.
- Rediffusion in Canterbury: what's left of Canterbury's original cable TV system.
About me (and these pages)
- How to contact me.
- My wishlist.
Other sites
- The Us-Lot pages.
- The Us-Lot log (feed).
- My bookmarks (feed).
- I work as a lecturer in the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland.
- Shackleton's Banjo
Recent changes
| Date | Files | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-01 | code/others | Some stuff I've done with xpdf, shntool, Linux and U-Boot recently. |
| 2015-02-01 | style.css | Tweak the line-height up a bit. |
| 2015-02-01 | books/20141210-... books/20150101-... books/20150103-... books/20150109-... books/20150119-... (and 1 more) |
Review the last month's worth of books: "The System of the World", "Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian", "Rustication", "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", "Britain's First Trunk Line" and "The Poor Had No Lawyers". More Mary Russell next! |
| 2015-01-01 | wishlist | One more Christmas gift -- thanks M&D! |
| 2014-12-25 | wishlist | Post-Christmas wishlist updates -- thanks to S, A and C families! |
| 2014-12-20 | wishlist | Wishlist updates -- thanks, David! |
| 2014-11-29 | style/text.css | Add a simpler stylesheet for text. I've been using this for things like my junk page... |
| 2014-11-19 | code/potamus/ | potamus 16. |
| 2014-11-04 | code/xpopple/ | Add Gentoo credit. Looking at the Debian patches, some of them came from Gentoo's xpdf-poppler package. |
| 2014-11-04 | code/tock/ code/xpopple/ |
Add various links to the Tock and xpopple pages. I wrote these while sitting on a train without Internet access earlier... |
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