Monthly Archives: July 2005

sorsele sunset

Posted on July 31, 2005 by acb

I’ve been “flickr-ing”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/seatrout/sets/677025/ what I was up to. I still can’t really believe I saw “this”:http://photos23.flickr.com/29635110_cdfe535466_b.jpg Continue reading →

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This is really strange

Posted on July 12, 2005 by acb

Looking at Tony Howard’s “piece on women bishops”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1067-1689865,00.html in the _Times_ today, I noticed a rack of google ads down one side. This was the bottom one …. Continue reading →

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Something completely different

Posted on July 9, 2005 by acb

If you have a fast PC and have not yet played with “Google Earth”:http://earth.google.com you are missing something astonishing. It has to be a PC, I’m afraid: there’s client software to download. Essentially it is a set of satellite maps … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Gloomy thoughts

Posted on July 9, 2005 by acb

It’s true as well as inspiring to say that London is a great, multicultural city and will recover from this. It has the traditions of resilience, tolerance, and diversity. But that’s not so true of England as a whole, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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thought passing through

Posted on July 8, 2005 by acb

Is anyone reading this in Stockholm? I will be passing through on Wednesday evening, with six hours to kill before the night train to Continue reading →

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Bomb Thoughts

Posted on July 8, 2005 by acb

Are up at “Salon”:http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/07/blair/index.html if anyone’s interested. Not very coherent, but not notably wrong, either. I do wish I had been closer to the action. I know it sounds callous, but that’s what journalists do. I want to _see,_ not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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