Yearly Archives: 2003

I’ll never go offline again

Posted on August 21, 2003 by acb

Google now has a built-in calculator. It almost speaks english: see the example that converts teaspoons to decilitres. I might even discover what Americans mean by ‘cups’. Continue reading →

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the trolls are done

Posted on August 20, 2003 by acb

At last: the whole story runs as one page. Continue reading →

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There’s been a huge amount happened to me while I’ve been away, some of it very good; I have caught and eaten the world’s most expensive trout (another story); finished the Selma Lagerlöf translation, and read a great many other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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And if I can’t catch masses of grayling

Posted on August 1, 2003 by acb

I’m sure I’ll find evidence that the Norwegians have a program to produce them. Continue reading →

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Gone fishing

Posted on August 1, 2003 by acb

All operations are suspended for the next ten days while I pursue intensive researches into the grayling of the Ljöra and the Trysil. Continue reading →

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the next best thing

Posted on July 31, 2003 by acb

“his problem, how to eat your cake and yet reject it with scorn, is one of his own making and he seems to solve it in the usual way, deluding himself that the next best thing to renouncing a pleasure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the loudest sound I’ve heard all year

Posted on July 30, 2003 by acb

I was sitting in a low chair with my laptop on a coffee table beside me. One lead snaked out of it to the wall socket; one led to the stereo, so that I could hear a cleaned-up MP3 of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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It’s different when we do it

Posted on July 29, 2003 by acb

From the Washington Post: Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The need for pointless casualties

Posted on July 28, 2003 by acb

One of the absurd aspects of the “war on terror”, compared to real wars, is that it hardly involves any casualties. There was an obit in today’s Daily Telegraph — one among a thousand “moustaches”, as they’re known — of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I know

Posted on July 26, 2003 by acb

If you were sensible and grown-up and so on, you wouldn’t laugh at this. Continue reading →