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Yearly Archives: 2006
Slo-ooo-w progress
The rate of progress on OOo is glacial; every fortnight or so I get an update on issue 6193, about the utter uselessness of notes in Writer compared to MS Word, and that was opened in June 2002, since when … Continue reading Continue reading
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Two shorts
Interesting and thoughtful piece from Scott Rosenberg about the difference between facts and stories. He talks about the way in which newspapers need to supply both and will always rely on humans for stories even though the access to facts … Continue reading Continue reading
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A thought after a party
The world needs a support group for people like me, who have trouble with faces. Let’s call it “Prosopagnostics Anonymous”. But how will we recognise one another? Continue reading
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Queen Victoria would be ashamed of me
I can often type faster than I think, but that is because I am often a very slow thinker. If a good idea comes to me all in a lump, as they tend to, I write it down on the … Continue reading Continue reading
on not having opinions
I note that I haven’t blogged, or wanted to, about big stories for a while. In particular, the war in Iraq and the Anglican schism (which does, absurd though it seems, actually matter) have both seemed subjects actively repulsive. I … Continue reading Continue reading
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Google and privacy: it’s worse than that
A friend of mine, a very well-connected professor of computer sciences — he knows who he is, and so, if he’s right, do the CIA, the FBI, and so on — writes about the Google piece last week: Had only … Continue reading Continue reading
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Remembering Blair
Can it be that Iraq will be forgotten, and he will be remembered instead as the man who abolished the hereditary peerage and replaced it with hereditary Asbos? Continue reading
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Shorten your life by two four minutes
Beowulf: the truth that liberals tried to hide. Actually, I think this is rather sweet. It reminds me of a point that a priest friend made years ago about the people who think there are demons in nicotine etc: that … Continue reading Continue reading
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