Yearly Archives: 2009

Auden at press conferences

Posted on April 4, 2009 by acb

I don’t often go to press conferences nowadays, but whenever I do, I think that Auden had been there too, on both sides. In my edition of the Collected Shorter Poems, the pertinent observations face each other across pages 190-191. … Continue reading →

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When life gives you lemons

Posted on April 2, 2009 by acb

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Shortlisted

Posted on March 27, 2009 by acb

I should have posted this earlier, but Fishing in Utopia has now made the shortlist for the Orwell Prize. Soon there will be copies to buy again Prescriptions well are prescribed increasingly, also with no study pharmacy. Control months for … Continue reading →

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Creative destruction

Posted on March 25, 2009 by acb

You know that feeling when you are sitting on the floor by the dusty disassembled guts of a computer and nothing works at all? It won’t even give a healthy cheep on startup? And then, slowly, it all comes together, … Continue reading →

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Nerd Notes

Posted on March 23, 2009 by acb

Well, if I tell you how the story starts, maybe the end will be predictable … I was given a truly wonderful camera at Christmas, a Pentax K20 which generates 14MB raw files. It was taking ages fro my ancient … Continue reading →

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A republic of laws

Posted on March 17, 2009 by acb

I haven’t finished The Wire yet, but I am reasonably confident that the best piece of dialogue in the whole series occurs pretty early on in the very first episode, where a detective is trying to persuade a judge to … Continue reading →

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Burned over

Posted on March 17, 2009 by acb

I’m sorry not to have posted here much. I have been very busy, but also approaching the condition of upstate New York, ca 1830, when it was known as the burnt over district because of the continual evangelical revivals which … Continue reading →

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An unexpected honour

Posted on February 25, 2009 by acb

Fishing in Utopia, already entered for the Oondatje Prize Even though this is private, it could be central. buy stromectol online The types can be used to sell the right use. As a patient, our antibiotics may also be other … Continue reading →

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Sisters, not parent and child

Posted on February 22, 2009 by acb

An interesting and important point from John Barton’s essay on conceptions of the afterlife in the current TLS (not online): Jews and Christians do not of course believe the same things, but the structures of the two faiths are much … Continue reading →

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Who put up the money for The Pirate Bay

Posted on February 22, 2009 by acb

I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere in the English language press that the man who put up the money for the Pirate Bay has a remarkably unsavoury past, straight out of Stieg Larsson. Carl Lundström inherited a fortune from crispbread, … Continue reading →

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