Rhinovirus and "Slings and Arrows"
The lack of recent blog entries is due to a small, unwelcome visitor: a pesky rhinovirus* which laid me low for several days, and still… Read More »Rhinovirus and "Slings and Arrows"
December 2006
"You wait around for a bus, and then a whole lot turn up at once…"
Regular readers will have been following my transition from the Greater Boston area to Seattle, and settling in to my apartment. We’ve sold the house,… Read More »"You wait around for a bus, and then a whole lot turn up at once…"
Brian Cathcart on my mother
The writer Brian Cathcart recently wrote a short priece for the New Statesman entitled A history lesson. It begins: Not many authors publish a book… Read More »Brian Cathcart on my mother
And they wonder why some of us think organized religion is cuckoo…..
David Farley has a piece in Slate entitled Who stole Jesus’ foreskin?. OK, we can all enjoy a chuckle about medieval superstition, and holy relics,… Read More »And they wonder why some of us think organized religion is cuckoo…..
"Ask the pilot" on the "gels, aerosols and liquids" idiocy
From the 2006 retrospective edition of Salon’s excellent column Ask the pilot: Speaking of things that never happened, how could we forget last summer’s liquid-bomb… Read More »"Ask the pilot" on the "gels, aerosols and liquids" idiocy
L'etat, c'est moi
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: His Exalted Highness Duke Geoffrey the Extemporaneous of Tempting St Mary Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title (Via pecunium.)
Tim on JSON and XML
From ongoing · JSON and XML: There used to be an argument about whether platform-neutral, language-neutral data formats were important, or whether distributed objects were… Read More »Tim on JSON and XML
Happy solstice to all
Seasonal greetings to all who are celebrating the longest-running holiday in the world. People have been marking this occasion ever since they were able to… Read More »Happy solstice to all
Remembering Carl
Today, December 20th 2006, is the 10th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s untimely death. Among his many gentle – but uncompromising – admonitions, this was always… Read More »Remembering Carl
A rude awakening
I’ve got into a nice, relaxed pattern on Sunday mornings: I make a pot of coffee, curl up in front of the TV with the… Read More »A rude awakening