Hi, I’m a partially-sighted computer scientist at Cambridge University in the UK. I come from rural West Dorset on the South-West peninsula of England. I play the flute and I’ve been learning Chinese slowly since about the beginning of the century.
Contact info: I am @ssb22 on Telegram Messenger, and I have an email at cam.ac.uk with the same ID (I’m not writing it in full here in case the spam robots discover an HTTP to Gemini proxy; my Web version has some Javascript "protection" although that seems to be getting less useful these days so I have to start using spam filters as well)
This Gemini capsule is currently mirrored on both ctrl-c.club and tilde.pink because I was using it to compare the configurations of these servers with respect to language tagging (I have both English and Chinese on my pages), see Issue 23 in the molly-brown server repository. The addresses of this capsule are gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~ssb22/ and gemini://tilde.pink/~ssb22/
Below is a list of my pages. I’ve converted most of these to Gemini, but there are still a few HTTP links in the list, for example because of poetry layouts that I found awkward to convert to Gemini, or Web forms for CGI programs etc—but there might be a couple that *could* be converted when I get there. Please be assured that the HTTP links (which also support HTTPS if you prefer) do lead to “old-school” lightweight HTML; meanwhile most links below are now Gemini links.
Adding Chinese web pages to Baidu
Advantages of dark backgrounds on computer displays
Algorithmic Composition and Reductionist Analysis: Can a Machine Compose?
Android viewer app for static HTML
Blocking Russia from my website in the 2010s
Bolo Adventures “walk-through”
Cambridge to London avoiding large stations
CD recommendations & track listings
CedPane: Chinese-English Dictionary Public-domain Additions for Names Etc
Charlearn, a program for learning to recognise foreign characters
Chess FEN codes for handicapped games
Chinese mistakes in commercial speech synthesizers
Chords on the Flute (multiphonics)
Civica UK is wrong about middle names
Claims that the leaving-Cambridge poem was about the girl Lin Huiyin disrespect the poet Xu Zhimo
Clara Empricost: Installation Instructions
Common problems adding pinyin to Chinese names
Converting “1000 imp/kWh” to watts
Coping with exam stress: unofficial guide (Simplified Chinese + English)
Coping with exam stress: unofficial guide (Traditional Chinese + English)
Current-transformer “energy monitors”
Desktop SSH via Android devices
Director Musices with Lilypond “Howto”
Download 4DML Transformation Utility
Eating at other Cambridge colleges
Elgar Op.74 “Give Unto the Lord” scanned score
Emacs and XEmacs configuration
Energy deals coherence checker
Eulerian paths around polygons
Four-dimensional markup language (4DML)
Four-dimensional markup language (4DML) transformation utility v0.691 Reference Manual
GIF Patent Problems and the Language Viewer
Google Maps "Share" link simplifier
Gopher protocol considered inferior
Gradint, a program for self-study of foreign languages
Heating a flat: vegetable-oil candles or oil-filled radiators?
How NOT to marry a foreign national
How the Cambridge Student-Run Computing Facility started
How to deal with “rate us” boxes on Android etc
How to just about survive in Android OS
How to use Economy 7 effectively
How to work around Zoom’s no-audio bug
I am not Sina Weibo’s silascambridge: theft of a virtual identity
ImapFix: a filter/fixer for IMAP mailboxes
Instructions for “F95B” portable rechargeable fan
Introducing OOP in a Python game
iPhone UK billing and messaging issues with Virgin and Vectone (with workarounds)
Is gradint-wrapper.exe a virus?
Is the PH Corpus really public domain?
Is WeChat’s “cleaver” a death threat?
Large-print notes on EPOC or Symbian
“Legal name fraud” nothing to worry about
lexconvert: a converter for phoneme codes and lexicon formats
List of my academic publications
List of vaguely-usable old Windows Mobile phones
Loophole in Microsoft YaHei font license?
Low-vision configuration for terminal applications
Magnetic field physics: is your phone charger really killing you?
Manually removing Windows “adware” with race conditions
MIDI Beeper (and RISC OS Maestro / BBC Micro converter)
Minmin's reply to Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem
Mobile-phone contract checklist
Netgear VMDG280 command-line control scripts
Notes on video conversion with mencoder
Offline package installation for Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions
Old notes: Windows Mobile email setup
OpenID with command-line authorisation
Pen-sized digital voice recorders
Polipo2: a caching Web proxy forked from Polipo
Preparing enlarged lesson notes with Unix tools
Python utilities for S60 phones
Raspberry Pi Zero W projector controller
Recent commits to ssb22's GitHub repositories
Removing Android “Clean Master” malware
Satellite navigation devices that do not require Windows
Screenshotting Chinese Web documents for WeChat
Script-driven contact management etc in Skype
Shower-head water filter tested
Simplifying Unicode punctuation for SMS
Software patents and mental health
Solving Micropower Chess (1982)
Spaced-out audio tracks with cdrdao
Spotify’s numerous “radio” channels
The “go and argue with *them*” fallacy
The Raven annotated for Chinese readers
Toothpastes suitable for an electric brush
Trademarks mentioned in my capsule
Transcript of Bilibili video trying to encourage Chinese with disabilities
UK citizenship application and referee requirements
UK passport application questions
Unclarity in WhatsApp’s new Terms
Undergraduate Project Dissertation (A Representation and Conversion System for Musical Notation)
Undergraduate project dissertation: errata
Understanding rejection on WeChat (Weixin)
Upgrading old Windows to GNU/Linux
UPnP router command-line control scripts
Using Microsoft Windows with low vision
Volume settings for unpowered speakers
Web Access Gateway (1997-2006)
Web Access Gateway: Chinese entry page
Web Access Gateway: Japanese entry page
Web Access Gateway: Korean entry page
Web Access Gateway: Online Help
WebCheck: monitor text strings on websites
Web statistics services can be harmful
Why animated flip boxes are not always good
Why I admit to being prejudiced
Why I unsubscribe from MailChimp
Why Wi-Fi routers should be left switched on
Windows Mobile 6.1 setup notes
X11 low-resolution scrollable desktop
X11 software magnification: last resort
X11: Using large print when in high resolution
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (Full-form characters)
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (version with notes in Full-form Chinese)
Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem: rhyming translation (version with notes in Simplified Chinese)
AI & copyright talk I was in (on panel's YouTube channel)
my OpenStreetMap contributions
BBC article that mentioned me for still using a Psion in 2021