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Yearly Archives: 2008
A glimpse of hell
Perhaps because I am feeling depressed by illness, unable either to walk or work as hard as is normally needed to keep low spirits away, the world seems horribly meretricicious. I watched an episode of the Wire last night, in … Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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Four weeks
Tomorrow it will be four weeks since the bloody ear infection started, which explains the infrequency of posting. In that time I have never known whether some sudden injudicious gesture, like wiping a sweaty forehead on my sleeve, will convert … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Housekeeping
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Not pronounced the obvious way
There is to be a new Anglican Communion, based around the 1662 prayerbook and the 39 Articles — delicious, that Peter Akinola and Peter Jensen should be heading up an organisation which takes as an article of faith that foreign … Continue reading
Posted in God
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A simple thought on the management of software
I just wrote a column for Charles Arthur about how I had celebrated Firefox day by switching back to Opera and this thought didn’t quite make it in. The organisational division between the users and producers of software should follow … Continue reading
Posted in nördig, OOo, Software
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Book reviews
I am exhausted from a rather wonderful launch party last night, but the first review of Fishing in Utopia is up, in the Economist. Very gratifying, with just the right touch of vinegar to keep it from being cloying—did you … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Journalism, Literature
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Publicity
I didn’t do this. And I am opposed to self-linking. But it’s very funny. See what the FWB has made!
Posted in Blather, Sweden
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Windows 3.1 lies athwart my future
I have two CD roms on my desk right now which retailed for about £500 each in the early Nineties. Each one holds a year’s run of the Independent; so far as I know they are my only way of … Continue reading
Posted in nördig, Software
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Three words that should be river names
The PrannockThe WazzockThe Twunt I imagine they are all in the West country somewhere. The Prannock is a chalk stream, with a small watercress farm on its lower reaches. The Wazzock is slow, with pike-filled eddies. The Twunt splashes hastily … Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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Muslim slave raiders
According to MacCulloch, (p 57) On the eastern and southern rim of Europe, Islam remained a threat until the end of the seventeenth century. Even when the activities of the Ottoman fleet were curbed after the battle of Lepanto in … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, God
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Getting better
I have been reading Dairmaid Dermot Diarmaud Diarmaid MacCulloch’s rather wonderful Reformation; this clears up a lot of confusion about the roots of the Church of England and its model of authority. In modern political terms, all Henry VIII did … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Literature
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