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Weblogging

On a clear day, you can blog forever

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today’s a true fall day, with wind loosened leaves falling into mercurial pools of water on sidewalks dark from rain. And with the weather change comes an attitude of gentle philosophy, reflections on times past. I wonder why the fall triggers a need to dive into the catalogs of our […]

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Political Weather

What’s the weather in Iraq

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hurricane Lili sputtered to a category 1 when it rolled into the US — enough to inflict damage, but not to the extent of first speculations, when Lili was a category 4 hurricane. Unfortunately, as much as I wish that Congress would have stood strong, forcing President Bush’s category 4 […]

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Just Shelley

Of value

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have never had a job I disliked so much that I would want to have revenge on them. Reading Dorothea Salo’s description of a job she left two years ago leaves me a bit in awe at the passion of her dislike. No, I’ve never disliked a job that much, but […]

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Weblogging

Spam comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One of the advantages of going with MT comments is that I can see comments from older postings. And I’m finding out that a posting I did quite some time back when I was still living in San Francisco, is getting spam comments. The posting had to do with the problems I […]

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Weather

Cause and effect

A record number of salmon were killed in the Klamath River in Northern California, and the administration refuses to acknowledge that the cause was water diverted to help farmers in Southern Oregon. Though the administration was warned that to divert the water would result in death to salmon who use the river for spawning, the administration trotted […]