Analysis

Book review 1 Sep 2024

Disguised contract murders in a 2020 non-fiction book
“You're never going to know who I have killed as I always ensured my targets did not appear to have been murdered.”
Ideas 17 Jun 2024

Ideas for a solar cooker with a conical concentrator
A reflector that can be made from sheet material.
Innovation and design 4 Jun 2024

Dissolved copper levels in a copper solar kettle
Test strips can distinguish tap water and water from the kettle.
Innovation and design 15 Mar 2024

Authenticating a public key from just a name - a feasibility study with GPL code
Authentication without trust in an authority, by making the name itself the key fingerprint.
Ideas 31 Dec 2023

A way to use spare screen width on a website
A separate, scrolling column for illustrations for better UX
Innovation and design 31 Jul 2023

A design for passwords with system-assigned randomness and user choice
Responsibility for making the password secure is separated from the conflicting goal of making it memorable.
Firsthand accounts 30 Jun 2023

Making coffee from unground beans
Using a vacuum flask and hot water
Technical investigation 25 May 2023

Measured efficiency of an induction hob and an electric kettle heating water
Kettle ~84% and induction hob ~79% efficient heating to below boiling point
Technical investigation 7 May 2023

Illustrating two causes of inefficiency in electric kettles sold in the 2020s
Heat storage and delayed cut-out
Analysis 16 Apr 2023

Notes on the radiation spectrum for solar heating and sky cooling
Selective coatings, glass transmission spectra
Innovation and design 29 Mar 2023

Higher net power from a solar kettle heating water in glass rather than copper
A parabolic trough concentrating sunlight through the walls of glass bottles
Innovation and design 20 Jan 2023

Testing cheap insulators on a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle
In wind and still air, bubble wrap and silicone tube on a 22mm horizontal copper pipe.
Innovation and design 8 Jan 2023

Trying bubble wrap as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle
2022 Bubble wrap, silicone tubing and bare copper compared
Innovation and design 23 Dec 2022

Trying silicone tubing as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle
2022 Performance comparison measurements in a parabolic trough
Firsthand accounts 18 Dec 2022

A recipe for meals of natural ingredients cooked with only a kettle
Observations made using vegetables, oats and eggs
Innovation and design 9 Dec 2022

Lepron project part 4: pseudowords with entropy of 3.5 bits/letter from trigrams
Possible applications include pronounceable passwords and usable public key authentication
Firsthand accounts 10 Nov 2022

Experiences using a fruit-picker tool with a grabber claw for apples
Two drawbacks that may not be obvious
Innovation and design 28 Oct 2022

A home-made solar kettle, its performance and its problems
A mug of tea in 10 minutes from copper pipe in a parabolic trough
Innovation and design 13 Oct 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 9
A technical article: measurements of speed of combining two filters in parallel
Innovation and design 6 Oct 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 8
A technical article: combining two filters
About Clarion 22 Sep 2022

A reader's guide to Clarion style and values
The full meaning of a text depends on its reader and writer sharing a common understanding of its context.
Innovation and design 2 Sep 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 7
A technical article: speed benchmarks of tuned and untuned YAFU filtering.
Innovation and design 26 Aug 2022

An idea for human-friendly hex strings in cryptographic key fingerprints
August 2022 Stephen Hewitt
Innovation and design 19 Aug 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 6
August 2022, A technical article - more empirical maths observations
Innovation and design 12 Aug 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 5
August 2022, A technical article - experiments with filtering
Innovation and design 5 Aug 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 4
August 2022, A technical article - experiments with filtering
Ideas 1 Jul 2022

The idea of moist air as a heat transfer fluid in energy-efficient home heating
Moist air as a heat transfer fluid in radiators and solar collectors
Innovation and design 14 Mar 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 3
March 2022, A technical article - experiments with filtering
Innovation and design 25 Feb 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 2
February 2022, A technical article - simple algorithm in GPL software
Innovation and design 13 Feb 2022

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 1
February 2022, A technical article - optimisations for a simple algorithm
Analysis 23 Jan 2022

Reporters protecting sources: in 2021 Reuters removed a clause from its “Standards and Values” web page
January 2022 Analysis of archived web pages
Innovation and design 8 Sep 2021

Lepron project part 3: A first attempt at pronounceable passwords using dice for quantified strength
September 2021 An open source project by Stephen Hewitt
Innovation and design 3 Aug 2021

Lepron project part 2: towards public key authentication without central authority using names made of pseudowords
August 2021 An open source project by Stephen Hewitt
Innovation and design 2 Jul 2021

Lepron, a project to develop pronounceable pseudowords for representing binary strings - Part 1: introduction and goals
May 2021 An empirical investigation by Stephen Hewitt
Innovation and design 14 May 2021

An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority
A universally-unique name from a sequence of pronounceable pseudowords.
Analysis 16 Apr 2021

Towards a philosophy, theory and practice of reporting, part 1
16 April 2021, Stephen Hewitt
Firsthand accounts 28 Dec 2020

A personal script for a guided body scan “meditation” or attention exercise
28 December 2020, Stephen Hewitt
Innovation and design 7 Jun 2020

A simple way to represent cryptographic key fingerprints
7 June 2020, Stephen Hewitt. The 5th Clarion data privacy article
Analysis 13 May 2020

Darwinian theory: “huge disparity” between public presentation and scientific literature
12 September 2013 quotes from Stephen Meyer author of Darwin's Doubt
Analysis 4 May 2020

UK tax-efficient charity: a way to quadruple a donation
The little-used potential of the UK's 2012 lower rate inheritance tax
Analysis 6 Apr 2019

Stealing public housing money: a reported historical method
An extract from The Practice of Journalism by Bruce Porter & Timothy Ferris, 1988
Innovation and design 18 Mar 2019

Manual encryption with a one-time pad revisited
March 2019, Stephen Hewitt. The 4th Clarion data privacy article
Innovation and design 8 Aug 2018

How to remember a 128-bit key using ‘constrained choice’
Each byte of your key is memorised as a word, that you chose with constraints on its first three letters.
Innovation and design 7 Jul 2018

How to remember a provably strong password: a new way using ‘constrained choice’
This method uses a truly random number but allows creative choices to compose a memorable phrase within the constraints of that number.
Ideas 24 Sep 2017

Use beads to generate random letters and numbers by hand
22 September 2017, Stephen Hewitt. The first Clarion data privacy article
Film review 10 Apr 2017

Film review: 'I Am Not Your Negro'
2017, director Raoul Peck
Reporting 31 Jan 2015

Bomb Syria says associate of president of Palestinian aid charity MAP
The president of the UK registered charity has an associate in another organisation who says “The US led airstrikes in Syria are a vital step”...
Book review

Book review: "Why we hate politics"
A book by Colin Hay, Polity Press
Journal 11 Jun 2014

Cancer virus book mentions Epstein, Rous and Rockefeller Institute
Notes on Cancer Virus, Crawford, Rickinson & Johannessen, OUP, 2014
Book excerpt 1978

Ancient document on undermining society, by Sun Tzu of Tsin dynasty
From Concise History of Great Nations, China, Otto Zierer, translated by Godfrey Ivins, Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1978
Analysis 11 Apr 2014

EU will force new cars to have positioning and cell phones after Oct 2015
Calling all cars, James Hayes, p58, Engineering and Technology, Volume 9, Issue 3, April 2014
Analysis

Syd Barrett, LSD and brain damage
2001 interview broadcast on BBC4
Analysis

Notes on Seymour Hersh's book on 1983 Soviet shootdown of flight KAL 007
Book The target is destroyed what really happened to flight 007, Seymour Hersh, Faber and Faber, 1986
Analysis 9 Oct 2006

Are “cluster bombs” aerially-deployed landmines?
Human Rights Watch says they “are not covered by the Landmines Protocol, because they are not designed as a delayed-action weapon”.
Analysis 4 Sep 2006

Not quite as it seems? A 1994 BBC documentary's depiction of the removal of Lenin's statue in Russia
Analysis of BBC's Messengers from Moscow
Film review 11 Jul 2006

Film review: Dreams of Sparrows (Iraq, 2006)
10 July 2006 shown in Cambridge, director Hayad Daffar. Life in post-invasion Iraq.
Analysis May 2006

Compilation of information on ‘Strategic Investment’ newsletter
A share tip sheet in the USA
Analysis

Deception and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad, 9 April 2003
A compilation of information
Analysis 2006

Drug companies, the re-creation of the 1918 'flu, and so-called bird 'flu
Notes on a Channel4 Television programme Equinox, broadcast 18 March 2006.
Analysis 16 Apr 2006

Secret physical intimidation during court testimony in USA
The case of Zacarias Moussaoui reported by the USA's Washington Post and MSNBC
Analysis

Marshall Plan money made propaganda films for European common market says BBC documentary
"Animation Nation", BBC Bristol 2005, Produced and directed by Merryn Threadgould
Analysis

A compilation of deaths
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Analysis 9 Apr 2005

Al-Jazeera television: a compilation of information
From 2005 onwards
Analysis 8 Jan 2004

Inconsistency in Mirror purported Diana letter quotes
8 January 2004 Daily Mirror is inconsistent with 20 October 2003 Daily Mirror
Film review 17 Mar 2003

Film review: The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
A film produced by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy, 2000
Analysis 21 Feb 2003

The Prime minister's fraudulent Iraq dossier of January 2003
A compilation of information, 21 February 2003
Analysis 31 May 2002

Objective reporting? Press coverage of London demonstration of 2 March 2002
Analysis of 3 March 2002 reports from Observer and Sunday Independent
Book review

Pearl Harbor and 11 September 2001
Two books on Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Analysis 8 Feb 2002

Bush prepares to kill for Power
by Guy Roberts
Analysis 27 Jan 2002

Daily Express misrepresented Taliban story of its own reporter
“The copy bore no relation to the headlines” - reporter Yvonne Ridley
Analysis 2001

Misleading British press coverage of demonstration in Rome on 10 November 2001
Analysis of 11 November 2001 Observer report
Analysis Nov 2001

La stampa britannica ed una manifestazione a Roma contro la guerra
Una fotografia di una manifestazione e come questo evento è stato riportato dalla stampa britannica

Analysis

Disguised contract murders in a 2020 non-fiction book

Ideas for a solar cooker with a conical concentrator

Dissolved copper levels in a copper solar kettle

Authenticating a public key from just a name - a feasibility study with GPL code

A way to use spare screen width on a website

A design for passwords with system-assigned randomness and user choice

Making coffee from unground beans

Measured efficiency of an induction hob and an electric kettle heating water

Illustrating two causes of inefficiency in electric kettles sold in the 2020s

Notes on the radiation spectrum for solar heating and sky cooling

Higher net power from a solar kettle heating water in glass rather than copper

Testing cheap insulators on a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle

Trying bubble wrap as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle

Trying silicone tubing as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle

A recipe for meals of natural ingredients cooked with only a kettle

Lepron project part 4: pseudowords with entropy of 3.5 bits/letter from trigrams

Experiences using a fruit-picker tool with a grabber claw for apples

A home-made solar kettle, its performance and its problems

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 9

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 8

A reader's guide to Clarion style and values

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 7

An idea for human-friendly hex strings in cryptographic key fingerprints

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 6

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 5

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 4

The idea of moist air as a heat transfer fluid in energy-efficient home heating

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 3

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 2

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 1

Reporters protecting sources: in 2021 Reuters removed a clause from its “Standards and Values” web page

Lepron project part 3: A first attempt at pronounceable passwords using dice for quantified strength

Lepron project part 2: towards public key authentication without central authority using names made of pseudowords

Lepron, a project to develop pronounceable pseudowords for representing binary strings - Part 1: introduction and goals

An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority

Towards a philosophy, theory and practice of reporting, part 1

A personal script for a guided body scan “meditation” or attention exercise

A simple way to represent cryptographic key fingerprints

Darwinian theory: “huge disparity” between public presentation and scientific literature

UK tax-efficient charity: a way to quadruple a donation

Stealing public housing money: a reported historical method

Manual encryption with a one-time pad revisited

How to remember a 128-bit key using ‘constrained choice’

How to remember a provably strong password: a new way using ‘constrained choice’

Use beads to generate random letters and numbers by hand

Film review: 'I Am Not Your Negro'

Bomb Syria says associate of president of Palestinian aid charity MAP

Book review: "Why we hate politics"

Cancer virus book mentions Epstein, Rous and Rockefeller Institute

Ancient document on undermining society, by Sun Tzu of Tsin dynasty

EU will force new cars to have positioning and cell phones after Oct 2015

Syd Barrett, LSD and brain damage

Notes on Seymour Hersh's book on 1983 Soviet shootdown of flight KAL 007

Are “cluster bombs” aerially-deployed landmines?

Not quite as it seems? A 1994 BBC documentary's depiction of the removal of Lenin's statue in Russia

Film review: Dreams of Sparrows (Iraq, 2006)

Compilation of information on ‘Strategic Investment’ newsletter

Deception and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad, 9 April 2003

Drug companies, the re-creation of the 1918 'flu, and so-called bird 'flu

Secret physical intimidation during court testimony in USA

Marshall Plan money made propaganda films for European common market says BBC documentary

A compilation of deaths

Al-Jazeera television: a compilation of information

Inconsistency in Mirror purported Diana letter quotes

Film review: The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

The Prime minister's fraudulent Iraq dossier of January 2003

Objective reporting? Press coverage of London demonstration of 2 March 2002

Pearl Harbor and 11 September 2001

Bush prepares to kill for Power

Daily Express misrepresented Taliban story of its own reporter

Misleading British press coverage of demonstration in Rome on 10 November 2001

La stampa britannica ed una manifestazione a Roma contro la guerra