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November 9, 2006 by graham
Anti-science
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November 8, 2006 by graham
Faith, as usual, is an excuse for everything
I wrote this post yesterday, finding myself getting ever more annoyed as the words appeared in Performancing, and I realised that I really do get wound up be religion, or at least religion used as a tool for someone’s convenience, probably a lot more than I should. To put this into some sort of context, [...]Archive
October 29, 2006 by graham
Winter cometh
Ah, winter. The clocks have gone back, so I got an extra hour’s sleep and still got up at half past nine this morning, the sky is blue, the trees are brown and, best of all, the Blue and Great Tits have started coming to the office window, pecking at the stone frame and waiting [...]Archive
September 27, 2006 by graham
Oh, and on Autobiographies
Will over at The Corridor has observed the same thing that I observed the other day: the phenomenon of the early autobiography. People have either become really interesting without me noticing (of course, everyone’s interesting to someone, but if everyone’s interesting at the age of 25 then I’ll eat hay with a donkey*) or the [...]Archive
September 24, 2006 by graham
Billie Piper will be paid six figures for her life story. Nobody is surprised
From BBC News: Doctor Who actress and singer Billie Piper has signed a six-figure deal to write her autobiography What is it with autobiographies at the moment? It seems like everyone, their dog and their dog’s second cousin once removed is suddenly finding the need to write their life story at the moment. I’ve nothing [...]Archive
September 9, 2006 by graham
Why Creative Commons is worth it
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July 7, 2006 by graham
Brave
Sometimes I wonder if I’m brave. Perhaps it’s a bloke thing. We spend all our lives being expected to be manly, which in most cases means being strong, useful with a hammer and able to de-spider the bath with the minimum of fuss and squealing, but what we don’t often say is that we wonder [...]Archive
May 25, 2006 by graham
Pieces of Eight
I’m a natural hoarder. It’s a trait that comes from my mother and from my mother’s family. The attic at home used to be chock-full of bits and pieces in cardboard boxes that, for one reason or another, most of which were lost in the mists of time, Mum had put to one side with [...]Archive
May 21, 2006 by graham