This is a chronological list of blog posts published between 2006 and 2011 (so far). Posts from 2011 were added on 13 April 2015; the rest will be added later. You are very welcome to browse and comment.
As described on the About page, every so often I like to clean up the archives by editing, deleting, merging and supplementing old posts. Such a clean-up has been in progress since January 2014, and has now covered all of the years listed below. My revisions of linkfest-type posts are less thorough than those of personal posts.
(Incidentally, WordPress allows bloggers to insert an automatically generated list of posts, but there is no facility to group them into years as I’ve done below, so this one’s manual. I did copy-and-paste from the autogenerated list to save time, though.)
— Posts from 2006 —
- Why “Outer Hoard”?
- Eventful weekend
- The Snow of Music
- Biographical stuff
- Ups and Downs
- Anti-gravity
- Wedge Island Sunset
- Early education
- On the farm
- Donkey
- Bathroom
- Special places on the farm
- More on card games
- Tales from long ago
- Glasgow canal scene
- The Web keeps on evolving
- Times of my birth
- Childhood games
- Very earliest memories
- Schoolbook archaeology: Antherus
- The planetary avery
- Painted swing
- Childhood photographs
- Fictional diseases
- Bedsheet garment
- Remembered relatives
- Music and me
- Scars
- Ancient piano compositions
- Pink elephants and black taxis
- Handwriting standard
- Suitmatch and Counterweight
- Composing with modes
- Messing about in QBASIC
- Dumbo’s Chess
- Religious compositions
- The fragility of pingpong balls
- Prime squiggle
- Conlanging and phonetics
- Social and religious sites
- Kepler quotes
- Assorted quotations
- Quoting from Nouwen
- Language links
- Grandma’s photograph
- A familiar place … from space
- This year’s Christmas tree
- Clifftops and cousins and other curious things
— Posts from 2007 —
- The thousand pictures of Pam Marlow
- For people who hoard old games
- Bathroom decorations
- Ancestry
- Pet pictures
- Fruithenge
- Favourite eighties computer game
- Guten morgen
- Script evolution
- Recent family losses
- Favourite spelling error
- The man in the moon
- Hear me! Hear me!
- Chocolate and garlic cake
- Third grade report cards
- Calculator
- Greeting cards
- Some childhood art
- Back and painted
- Houseboat holiday
- Puppets on the houseboat
- My vote is cast
- News in brief
- Hogfather in Australia
— Posts from 2008 —
- Our place in the sky
- More Starshots: The location of Heaven
- Highlights of the Fringe
- Unfinished instrumental composition
- Yorke Valley photograph
- Pam’s haiku on display
- New kitchen cupboards
- Food and drink in Australian English
- Another news update
- Time for a revolution
- Skepticism in reverse
- Announcement: Play Elemental online
- Memories of Childcraft
- More things are happening
- Starstrider customisations
- Interesting Stuff: First in a Series
- The forms of verbs
- Interesting stuff #2
- More kitchen pictures
- Past tense in English verbs
- Interesting stuff #3
- Illustrating Children’s Picture Books
- Interesting stuff #4
- Cork for floor, bird for sky
- Curtains and floors
- Belated report on Skeptics Convention
- Interesting stuff for October 2008
- It’s official – my stomach is normal
- Interesting stuff for November 2008
- Interesting stuff for December 2008
- A new star for Christmas
— Posts from 2009 —
- Interesting stuff for the 2009 silly season
- Impromptu wineglass sketch
- Warrnambool holiday
- Earliest astronomical memory
- Interesting stuff: February 2009 (I)
- Wedding wine labels
- Interesting Stuff: February 2009 (II)
- New music for me
- Interesting Stuff: March 2009
- My sister’s wedding
- Interesting Stuff: Early April 2009
- Crayon Physics Review
- Explorer of the Galaxy
- Renovation update
- Interesting Stuff: Late April 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Early May 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Late May 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Early June 2009
- Why Pi is Not Three
- Interesting Stuff: Late June 2009
- Fractal tray video
- Poetry competitions, and a little quantum
- Interesting Stuff: Early July 2009
- Microphone testing
- Thinking of the sky
- Interesting Stuff: Late July 2009
- Interesting Stuff : Early August 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Late August 2009
- Washing dishes
- Some tenets of faith
- Interesting Stuff: Early September 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Late September 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Early October 2009
- Things to try in bed
- Interesting Stuff: Late October 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Early November 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Late November 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Early December 2009
- Interesting Stuff: Final for 2009
- Parlour games for Christmas
— Posts from 2010 —
- Sequel to the Christmas parlour games post
- Interesting Stuff: Early January 2010
- New web space, plus TV upgrade
- A World Within Your Mind
- Fractal collection
- Inverloch photographs
- Interesting Stuff: Early February 2010
- Conversation cards
- Dad turns sixty
- Interesting Stuff: Late February 2010
- Misunderstood childhood questions
- Spiral doodle thing
- Interesting Stuff: Early March 2010
- Interesting Stuff: Late March 2010
- Interesting Stuff: Early April 2010
- Kitchen challenge
- Interesting Stuff: Late April 2010
- House tour: the ultimate domestic post
- Interesting Stuff: Early May 2010
- Conversations with Jabberwacky
- Internet essay from 1999
- Formation
- Interesting Stuff: Late May 2010
- Tribute to Pam Marlow
- Interesting Stuff: Early June 2010
- Pam’s place in the park
- Interesting Stuff: Late June 2010
- My eclipse photo published by the BBC
- Interesting Stuff: Early July 2010
- Interesting Stuff: Late July 2010
- Bookmash!
- Interesting Stuff: Early August 2010
- Election day
- Interesting Stuff: Late August 2010
- Interesting stuff: Early September 2010
- Spelling systems and codes
- Parents to visit China, Russia, etc
- Gifts from China
- Interesting Stuff: Early October 2010
- Interesting Stuff: Late October 2010
- Halloween memories
- Interesting Stuff: Early November 2010 (extended)
- Parental holiday update
- Interesting Stuff: Late November 2010
- Parents’ pics: Germany and England
- Gallery of Silk Route holiday photographs
- Interesting Stuff: The Final
— Posts from 2011 —
- General updates 2011: Dec/Jan
- A holiday in Perth
- Flock of Worlds
- Octopus update
- General updates 2011: Jan/Feb
- Reflections on prayer
- General updates 2011: February
- Ficly picks
- General updates 2011: Feb/Mar
- Rakhamim Ha’Makakim
- Puzzle: Knights and Pages
- Solution: Knights and Pages
- General updates 2011: Mar/Apr
- General updates 2011: April
- Easter pictures
- Saying goodbye to colleagues
- General updates 2011: Apr/May
- General updates 2011: May
- General updates 2011: May/Jun
- General Updates 2011: June
- General updates 2011: Jun/Jul
- General updates 2011: July (with Renaissance coffee mug for sale)
- Last time in Europe
- Visit to parents’ (also, podcast announcement)
- Pre-holiday links
- Three weeks in Europe: A holiday report
- Pam’s haiku announcement
- Post-holiday link dump
- Playing with Ganjifa (Part I)
- Playing with Ganjifa (Part II)
- News & links for late October
- News & links for early November
- Calendar themes
- News & links for late November
- News & links for early December
— Posts from 2012 —
- Highlights of the Christmas season
- News and Links for Early February 2012
- Canberra
- Festival in review
- Post-Easter link catch-up
- Links for early May 2012
- Links for Late May 2012
- Links for early June 2012
- Two nodable challenges
- Punctuation experiment rehearsal
- Results of punctuation experiment
- News and links for late June & early July
- Links for late July 2012
- News and links for early August 2012
- Parent visiting and camera testing
- News and links for late August 2012
- Links for early September 2012
- News and links for early October 2012
- News and links for early November 2012
- Links for late November 2012
- Shepherds Hill Recreation Park — Best Photos from Spring 2012
- Final links for 2012
- Bookshelf tour
— Posts from 2013 —
- 2013 Begins!
- First links for the year
- If we are designing flags…
- Links: Early February 2013
- Musical relay game
- Links: Early March 2013
- Kangaroo Island: a photographic report
- Superknot
- Kán yu andastánd wot aim seiing?
- Links: Early April 2013
- Links: Late April 2013
- Imaginary musings
- Links: Early May 2013
- Links: Late May 2013
- You may now call me El Kazunkel
- Links: Late June 2013
- Links: Early July 2013
- Links: Late July 2013
- Links: Early August 2013
- Astronomy in conjunction with more astronomy
- Elke at twelve weeks
- Links: Late August 2013
- Links: Late September 2013
- Links: early October 2013
- More silly pulp covers
- My local wood nymph
- Links: Late October & Early November
- Links: early December 2013
— Posts from 2014-2015 to come —
The Outer Hoard 