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It's common knowledge that web colour names are derived from the X11 colour names . But the relationship is in reality a series of com...

Almost exactly ten years ago, in an earlier post , I bemoaned the fact that a few glyphs from the ZX81 character set  were missing from the ...

Seven-segment displays have long been used in digital clocks as they are a natural fit for LCD and LED technologies. There are even electro...

There are 193 full members of the United Nations . I've put together a web page animating between those flags based on the SVG images ...

I had a bit of an epiphany earlier in the year. Not one of "Archimedean" proportions (no bathwater was at risk), but I seem to rem...

Imagine you are broadcasting a message over the air by Morse code. The message (or plain text) is made up of words of capital letters separa...

Remember those glossy posters at school to help you learn the alphabet? I'm assuming they still use them. They probably need updating fr...