Monthly Archives: October 2002

I’m not the only one

with finger trouble. It’s pleasing that the highest-ranked genuine entry comes from a university. Continue reading

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OOo 643

has just been sort-of-released. It’s full of features, but I want fixes. Printing directly to PDF is a whole lot less urgent than being able to search with wildcards, or paragraphs in the search expressions. Even fixing the bug where … Continue reading Continue reading

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very close to the bone

Even if it‘s just another story generator. Continue reading

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Experience,

the Martin Amis memoirs, are shockingly good in parts. What he writes about his parents, and about his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard, reveals him as a much better writer tackling more difficult themes than any of the famous novels, not … Continue reading Continue reading

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Every year

I think “this has to be the silliest thing Richard Dawkins will ever write about religion”. And every year, I’m wrong. Continue reading

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Out poofters out

The Vatican has decided that homosexuality is to be extirpated from the priesthood. Andrew Sullivan is upset. Two questions. Continue reading

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save time

Think right now. Continue reading

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titsup.com

Arts&Letters, in the wake of the collapse of Lingua Franca, apparently. All that is left of the empire are a few sticky notes. Continue reading

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it never rains

She fed a widower swan which approached us very slowly up the narrow stream. The apple and willow trees that overhang the stream would often hid the body of the swan in its journey, so we could only see the reflection float slowly towards us, upside down.
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When Linux met Likud

You know the bombadier beetle? I just (god forgive me) stumbled through Slashdot onto the mental equivalent: a brain containing two forms of repulsive bigotry which, when they meet, Continue reading

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