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Weblogging

Warm and wonderful post of the week

Danny’s post featuring a really excellent mountain photo–beats mine all hollow–and a story about a new house guest.

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Technology

Poor auld tin

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t travel well anymore. Oh, I like my car trips, but I don’t care much for flying in this paranoid, bankrupt age and even the train was tiring. I think if the circumstances had been better, or I had reserved a sleeper on the train or the location wasn’t […]

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Writing

Eats, Shoots, and leaves does Ms Manners

Lynn Truss, the author of the acclaimed Eats, Shoots, and Leaves is interviewed in the New York Times about her new book, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. The interviewer, Deborah Solomon, does a marvelous job capturing the uniqueness that is Truss, but […]