Yearly Archives: 2004

Publications

Posted on April 18, 2004 by acb

The radio programe I have been making on ethnic cleansing went out on Thursday for the first time, and is repeated tonight at 9.30pm; the profile of Dan Dennett was published yesterday, with a fantastically good photograph by Eamon McCabe. Continue reading →

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Spam hurts

Posted on April 18, 2004 by acb

Ithaca is still a wonderfully remote place, accessible only by a ferry from Patras, which is itself hard to reach. So I spent five days either travelling or resting there, and at the end of that time decided to check … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Slow of thinking

Posted on April 18, 2004 by acb

It took me a long time to realise this. But of course. The character you need to understand Israel today isn’t Jewish at all. It’s Mr Kurtz, his stockade ringed with human heads. There will be more of this once … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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a snippet

Posted on April 11, 2004 by acb

I have been too busy, and then too exhausted, to keep this up properly. But here is a snippet, before I go on holiday, that should really go in the cuttings blog, except that doesn’t exit yet properly. It was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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yuck!

Posted on April 3, 2004 by acb

A sudden burst of comment spams, my very first. Fortunately, it is extremely easy to wipe them out from mySQL, and they can’t have been up for more than ten minutes. I can’t figure out how to do the fancy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The cataracts of Stalinism

Posted on April 2, 2004 by acb

So, I went to see Eric Hobsbawm, and he was fascinating, learned, charming — but with a blind spot made of boot leather when it comes to communist regimes. I asked him, amongst other things, whether we can hope to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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a timely purchase

Posted on April 1, 2004 by acb

It’s a shame that this won’t be available tomorrow (nor any other day this year), because I want one. Continue reading →

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another Douglas Adams anecdote

Posted on March 31, 2004 by acb

Though it seems to me that the joke was on Mac snobs here. At the end of the conversation I last blogged, I found another paragraph. DNA speaks: “I was talking to Nathan Myhrvold the other day, and I said … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the voice of Douglas Adams

Posted on March 31, 2004 by acb

There is an unnerving number of dead people in my contacts file. One of them is Douglas Adams, who I knew to get quotes from; attached to the phone number at his software company is a note of what he … Continue reading →

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pub crawling into handbags

Posted on March 31, 2004 by acb

Felix and I met in the Lamb, and discovered how to beam numbers with IR to each others’ mobiles. Could anything be sillier, or more fun? The Lamb, in Lamb’s Conduit Street, is a wonderful pub, the closest thing in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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