Monthly Archives: January 2003

get online

Don’t be a hamster! This note is for all the francophone readers: you know, when you were being taught in school, that none of this stuff seemed as if it would be any use? Well, here’s the proof of that … Continue reading Continue reading

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So I’m smug

But this horrendous burst of redesigning, which culminated in the rolling, changing subtitle under the new logo, made me feel, for a moment or two, that I actually knew what the hell was going on with MT. The only hassle … Continue reading Continue reading

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Astonishing blog

I was rambling and found this — enchanting, shameless, sad. Also, utterly sweet. Odd that it would once have been a much more forced newspaper column. Continue reading

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zionism and anti-semitism

My old colleague Richard (D.) North just pointed me at a long, but incisive piece by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Spectator. The historical point of the argument was to show how many Jews had been anti-Zionist in the early years … Continue reading Continue reading

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Sullivan 2

On the other hand, he’s got the coming year quite right: “Blair – again – is doing the right thing. Leadership means telling people what they don’t want to hear. It’s not just possible there will be a terrorist attack … Continue reading Continue reading

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Blaming the Jews

Andrew Sullivan has a bash at the Foreign Office, on the back of this Telegraph report. It proves, he says, that the Foreign Office will always blame the Jews. But it seems to me to prove something more worrying: the … Continue reading Continue reading

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RSI no more

I found the ultimate entry device on Slashdot: as you can see, the any key is still missing. Continue reading

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Wonderful little hack

MT never stops surprising me. It’s horribly Unixish, in that it will do anything you could possibly want, if you are prepared to grub about in templates, add-ons, and configuration files. But the authors actually think and care about what … Continue reading Continue reading

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Pompous

Whaddya mean, I missed the deadline? Here is my technology review of the year: stuff that was actually useful to a writer. Continue reading

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2003

Goes downhill from here on … (seen through Dave Barry). Continue reading

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