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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Happy dance
Granta is going to take my piece about Sorsele (where the photo above was taken). It wasn’t at all what I set out to write there. But it’s not at all bad. I will make another smug little post when … Continue reading Continue reading
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With enough eyeballs, all bugs are invisible
An interesting test case for open source boosterism is provided by the release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 this week. I have been using this product since long before it was usable, out of a mixture of perversity, stinginess, and vague anti-Microsoft … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in OOo
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Convention and welfare
I have been working on a long piece about the ideas of Herbert Gintis for the Guardian, and there are some bits left over after I rolled it al out and cut it to fit the tin. The broader message … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in British politics
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The Carey problem
I promised myself that I wouldn’t write any more about George Carey once he retired. But the bugger won’t stay retired. He continues to regard himself as the man in charge of the Anglican Communion and to dispense advice and … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in God
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Asylum seekers spread it with every breath
Just when you think the Mail can’t possibly surpass its discovery of the threat posed to life by dihydrogen monoxide, it comes up with a headline like this. And the deadly gas in question … …is… carbon dioxide! Now that … Continue reading Continue reading
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High class busking
This is glorious. John M Ford has started selling his poems and parodies printed on T shirts. I love the idea of poetry being sold on T shirts rather than in paperbacks which cost almost as much and will be … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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You’ll all laugh
But my ignorance of vegetables is unbounded. A friend gave my wife a chili bush of some sort, which was planted in the garden. It has small white star-shaped flowers, and bears these fruits: They are surprisingly hot. But does … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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Once in a while
You get shown the light in The Orlando Sentinel if you look at it right. Chris Wilson, the man who ran the NTFU board, has been busted by the local police on obscenity charges. This probably doesn’t affect the running … Continue reading Continue reading
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A great Gledhill story
The way Erickson hoisted the host over his head and held it aloft for a minute or more made a vivid contrast to the perfunctory elevation that the senior priests favored. Tears rolled down his cheeks during the ceremony. The … Continue reading
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