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Weblogging

Pulling a Shelley

Recovered  from the Wayback Machine. There are several webloggers I admire not just because of their facility with writing, but also because they stand by what they write. They may debate their words, but they don’t retract them, and rarely regret them. In particular, I’ve always liked Jonathon Delacour’s tenacity when it comes to his writing. His […]

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Political

Already feeling the effects

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today, President Bush will address the nation with his rationale for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. I would say that if the increase in noise of this issue is anything to go by, I expect to see a strike sooner rather than later. And I still don’t understand the frenzy […]

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Just Shelley

Death by a thousand paper cuts

I’ve always had this thought at the back of my mind that we would live forever if it weren’t for life intruding. Aside from the effects of our environment, of gravity and solar radiation and our proclivity in fouling our own nests, we could live much longer than we do except that we keep persisting […]