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  • VB audio virtual cable for virtual stereo mix
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This site contains links to my current activities and older papers, essays, poems and artwork I have done over the years.

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All Posts

  • Running old 4:3 screen resolutions on modern desktop October 5, 2017
  • Dissertation on food poverty and food banks November 18, 2016
  • VB audio virtual cable for virtual stereo mix June 27, 2016
  • Archipelago MUD old code instructions November 23, 2015
  • Frog, Toad and Newt Pictures – sitting on our step August 2015 August 23, 2015
  • Introduction to ‘Foibles, Frolics and Phantasms’ July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: Dawn July 6, 2013
  • The Face of Death (Older version of ‘The visage of Death’) July 6, 2013
  • Basque (Older version of ‘Monoglot’) July 6, 2013
  • AB OVO USQUE AD MALA (Older version of ‘From the eggs to the apples’) July 6, 2013
  • Silage (older version of ‘Pathetic Fallacy’) July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: Part of the ‘Song of Sorrow’ (a homage to R. E. Howard’s Hyborean epic tales) July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: Miscellaneous Fragments (in the style of Norse/ Anglo Saxon poetry…) July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: The Lay of Vir (in the style of Norse/ Ango Saxon epic poetry…) July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: Sonnet to the Ancient Town July 6, 2013
  • Juvenillia: Memento Mei July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: The Layman July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: The Sorcerer July 6, 2013
  • Juvenilia: The Poet’s Song July 6, 2013
  • Haiku-style Poems July 6, 2013
  • The City July 6, 2013
  • The Town on Saturday Night July 6, 2013
  • Walking in Cader Idris July 6, 2013
  • The Spiral July 6, 2013
  • Changes July 6, 2013
  • The Serpent Ouroboros July 6, 2013
  • War and Peace July 6, 2013
  • Finis July 6, 2013
  • Celtic music July 6, 2013
  • Utopia July 6, 2013
  • Dawn July 6, 2013
  • Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau | Old Land Of My Fathers (The Welsh National Anthem). By Evan James. Translated by Paul Catherall July 6, 2013
  • Tendon July 6, 2013
  • The Pretentious Ones July 6, 2013
  • Stalking Grounds July 6, 2013
  • Pathetic Fallacy July 6, 2013
  • Limbo July 6, 2013
  • The Visage of Death July 6, 2013
  • Forefathers July 6, 2013
  • Looking Ahead July 6, 2013
  • Poem for a Poet July 6, 2013
  • Origins 2 July 6, 2013
  • Cain July 6, 2013
  • Scapegoat July 6, 2013
  • Plenilune July 6, 2013
  • Poem July 6, 2013
  • Images July 6, 2013
  • Chaos July 6, 2013
  • From the Eggs to the Apples (ab ovo usque ad mala) July 6, 2013
  • Cave July 6, 2013
  • The Embitterment July 6, 2013
  • Monoglot July 6, 2013
  • Front cover of Foibles, Frolics and Phantasms July 5, 2013
  • Management Issues Affecting an Information Service (case study: a Public Library in North Wales 2000) July 5, 2013
  • The current uses of ‘Information technology’ (I.T.) and ‘Information Communications Technology’ (I.C.T.) in public libraries (1999) July 5, 2013
  • The replacement of a 2nd Generation Library Management System July 5, 2013
  • Overview of the Public Library sector in 1999 July 5, 2013
  • ‘Bibliographic Structure and Control on the World Wide Web.’ (Short essay) July 5, 2013
  • MA Dissertation: Resource Description and Control on the World Wide Web (2000) July 5, 2013
  • Comment on the explicit or implicit ideological and moral basis for one or more Hollywood films of the same genre, and on how its stance is conveyed through narrative, characterisation and/ or mise-en-scene. July 5, 2013
  • ‘In connection with one Hollywood genre film, discuss the presence (or absence of characteristics of mise-en-scene, characterization and ideology, and how far the film accords with or diverges from the viewer’s expectations in its use of them.’ July 5, 2013
  • The Radical Writings of P. B. Shelley (B.A. Literature & Media Studies Dissertation) July 5, 2013
  • Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripness is all’ (King Lear.) Discuss how two of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes act and react within the interplay of choice and destiny. July 5, 2013
  • ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’ (Henry IV Part 2.) Discuss the range of political success and failure, authority and weakness displayed by TWO of the monarchs of the Richard II – Henry V series of history plays. July 5, 2013
  • Braine’s primary aim is to encourage his readers to reflect on the political and social systems around them.’ Discuss the ways in which Braine achieves this in Room At The Top. July 5, 2013
  • Survey attitudes to the French Revolution by two writers of the period. discuss the possible influence of these writings on the literature of Romanticism. July 5, 2013
  • The treatment of the theme of Urban Life in Twentieth Century Poetry July 5, 2013
  • A poem should not mean But be (Archibald Macleish) Does this requirement shed more light then darkness? July 5, 2013
  • The twin aims of 18th Century writers were habitually stated to be to entertain readers and to improve them. Compare Gulliver’s Travels and One of Moll Flanders and Joseph Andrews, seeking to describe the author’s balance between these two imperatives and how far, if at all, they succeed in unifying them July 5, 2013
  • Articulate with reference to texts, what the term tragedy as applied to drama/ film now means July 5, 2013
  • With reference to a part of Paradise Lost, describe how Milton presents his conception of evil. July 5, 2013
  • Is it possible to put forward a feminist film language as distinct from the pervading methods, structures and ideology of mainstream cinema? July 5, 2013
  • Does Doctor Faustus confront the gap between human aspiration for life and the reality of actual living? July 5, 2013
  • “…a safety-valve for anti-social feelings.” To what extent would you accept Michael Balcon’s assessment of the role and importance of Ealing Comedy in the period from 1949-1955? July 5, 2013
  • Is Heart of Darkness ultimately a rejection of imperialism’s authorized lies? July 5, 2013
  • ‘Blake’s voice is the voice of freedom.’ Do you agree with this claim? July 5, 2013
  • Achebe has commented that African writing has the advantage of ‘a largely unrecognised, huge oral tradition.’ Discuss the ways in which he puts this into practice in Things Fall Apart. July 5, 2013
  • A Journey (1996) March 18, 2013
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