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 an associate professor of computer science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Until 2021 I worked at Abertay University in Dundee.)
- Bands I play with sometimes include the Staffin Island Ceilidh Band, the Abertay Ceilidh Band, Shackleton's Banjo and Aff the Cuff.
Recent changes
| Date | Files | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-27 | wishlist | Post-Christmas wishlist update. Thanks all! |
| 2021-10-13 | wishlist | Post-birthday wishlist update. Thanks very much all! |
| 2021-10-13 | index | Bands update. Not much happening lately! |
| 2021-10-13 | index | Job update. |
| 2020-12-31 | library/ | Use Wikipedia's Special:BookSources for ISBN links. It has a stable URL, and it links to current versions of all the other searches I've used in the past. |
| 2020-12-31 | library/ | Don't include library RDF files in the web output. |
| 2020-12-31 | library/ | Remove Canterbury column (from a previous house move). |
| 2020-12-27 | buylist wishlist |
Wishlist update. |
| 2020-12-27 | books/20150131-... | Hide a review. |
| 2020-12-24 | code/xpopple/ | Update the xpopple page. I've just tidied up xpopple's documentation a bit, so this now uses some of the same wording. |
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