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Original articles
Advice on baby care.
Artificial Intelligence (the Charles Cabbage papers).
Athletics records
Boots camps.
Candide discovers UNIX.
Chess Match Special.
Computermanship.
Green Toast.
Home Computing
How I proved the Riemann hypothesis
How to be a good lecturer.
How to be a statistician (true story).
How to be topp in Compsci.
How to use E-mail.
It's CURTAINS for the Macintosh.
Jeeves and the slippery paradox.
Literary criticism meets COBOL.
New BBC Radio 3.
PANES 95.
Philosophy class.
Railtrack timetable nominated for Booker prize.
Referee's report on the Bible.
The Acorn Archimedes computer.
The first million digits of pi.
The Importance of being UNIX.
The Number of the Beast.
The private life of Tolkien
The rake's progress.
The spirit is willing...
The WHICH guide to Computing
Time share holiday advert.
'Twas on the Monday morning
Virus sale
What mathematicians write about
Why the polls got it wrong.
Wishing well complaint letter.
The Phoenix papers, probably of interest only to those who remember the Phoenix computer system.
Some clerihews (mostly mathematical)
Computer-generated texts
The purple yeti (assorted sonnets).
Do not puncture a loon (other poetry).
GROAN output.
JABBER output.
Variations on Ozymandias
The Mikado of New Labour (a speech).
Mathematical essays and transcripts of 'popular' talks
Alphametics (cryptarithms).
Mathematical puzzles in fantasy games.
Designing Adventure puzzles.
Paradoxes and Unplayable Games.
pi is 25/8, the Sun is made of ice, and other useful notions.
Colonel Blotto's game.
Computers and language.
Old quotations quizzes
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Links to solutions have also been provided.
Another collection of miscellaneous quotations.
Some quotations that people want to identify. Suggestions welcome.
I am widely held responsible for the March March march (established 1979).
I have done the Three Peaks of Yorkshire walk nine times (1990, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007) and the Lyke Wake Walk twice (1994, 2000). Here are the Lyke Wake dirge and an anecdote.
In my younger days I co-wrote adventure games including Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon, and SpySnatcher, various of which were published by Acornsoft in the 1980s and Topologika in the 1990s. The games Fyleet, Crobe and Sangraal have also been resurrected, thanks to Graham Nelson and Adam Atkinson; they can be obtained free in Infocom Zcode format from the interactive fiction archive, together with software for playing them. The games Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon and SpySnatcher are now also freely available from the same site.
Cheer yourself up with this picture of a notorious liar being hit by a tomato.
Some caricatures by Patrick Charlier (the first one's of me)
Bust of me by Gabriella Bollobás
Charles Partington's West Park web pages
Last updated March 22nd 2008 by Jonathan Partington.
