dick pountain's pages

My old site was unceremoniously dumped when Geocities closed down, so I built this one purely as a stop-gap until I can be bothered to build a proper new one. However I'm starting to really like Google's authoring software, so it might stick around for quite a while! These pages contain the same snippets of home-spun software, science, literature and philosophy from the old site, plus some new stuff: my Ruby projects with source code to download.

There’s a page devoted to my ideas about minimal software user interfaces called Simpleware with a couple of sample programs to try, and a page of collected quotes and reflections I call Cool Quotes.

You can read back-issues of my PC Pro Idealog column as far back as June 2002 (issue 94) on the PC Pro site, by searching for 'Idealog', and I've made columns 1 to 93 available for download here from the Idealog Archive page. Also, PC Pro has recently starting selling Kindle e-books that contain some of my articles - here's the first one, called Provoke.

You can view many of my best photographs on my Flickr site, or even buy them nicely framed up from Redbubble. I'm also a member of

, an interesting book-oriented site where you can compare the contents of your library with other people's and join groups to chat about bookish matters.

If you want to get in touch, email me at web@dickpountain.co.uk

COOL RULES

"Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude" (Reaktion Books, 2000) is a book I co-authored with my late friend and colleague Dave Robins, in an attempt to pin down the lasting legacy of the 1960s. Although everyone wrote off the "counterculture" as a failed experiment, in fact its values have stealthily taken over western societies and formed our contemporary consumer-individualist style of living. You can read reviews (and perhaps buy a copy?) at Amazon here.

PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF COMPUTING

I wrote the New Penguin Dictionary of Computing (and a Concise edition too) in 2002. It's somewhere between a conventional dictionary and an encyclopedia, with longish essays on the fundamental concepts of computing - it’s also available from Amazon here.

Copyright

All the original material on this site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License unless stated otherwise on the page. Permissions beyond the scope of this licence may be available by email from web@dickpountain.co.uk