Sean's website

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

—Socrates in Plato's Apology


This is the personal website of Sean Whitton (about me), student, debater, philosopher, mathematician, Wikimedian, physicist and ringer*. It contains my blog, which gets updated reasonably regularly, and a slowly growing collection of other pages on my activities and views. Do explore, and if you need to contact me please use .


I have recently changed my OpenPGP key in light of recent vulnerabilities uncovered in the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. Please see this message.

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Site map

blog - my weblog, a diary, soapbox and site update log amongst other things

about - about me

site - information on this pitiful site itself, with its history and some techniques used

links - links elsewhere, to both friends and useful resources

projects - my projects: started, completed, abandoned etc. A sort of portfolio
debate - I run some discussion groups/mediums for debate on pretty much any intellectual subject, hence the usage of the title philosophy

ringing - on being a low-level bell-ringer

articles - useful things I have written, generally copied over from my blog

witterings - a semi-permanent personal pastebin

misc - pages that don't really fit anywhere else.

* wannabe for most of these.

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