Monthly Archives: August 2005

The trauma continues

August 23, 2005 – 1:03 pm

Salma went in for a week’s worth of intensive therapy last night. I suffered from a little separation anxiety, but nothing that a nice piece of cake (of which more later) couldn’t fix. I should be composed enough tomorrow to tell Martyn why he’s right. And yet wrong.

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Can’t Post…

August 22, 2005 – 12:21 pm

…Too traumatized. My iMac is a victim of the leaking capacitor problem (now that’s what I call a memory leak) that is vexing Apple and Dell, among others, at the moment. She’s gamely hanging in there, but sleep or power downs cause her no end of trouble. Poor, dear Salma.

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Technical hitch

August 19, 2005 – 1:01 pm

The simplest of posts today. My RSS feed isn’t working properly, giving out incomplete URLs. I can see what the problem is, but have no idea what the solution is. Don’t wait up.

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Time for a rest

August 18, 2005 – 6:57 am

Two substantive posts in a row: it’s time for a day off. It started raining just as our boat pulled away from the dock this morning, and continued throughout the row and the ride to work. It struck me as a very British rain; typically here it seems that if it’s raining at all then [...]

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Complacency

August 17, 2005 – 11:36 am

under the previous post there was some talk about the bigger picture of our current energy consumption habits, i.e. whether we can continue to live as we do in any number of ways, not just SUV-based. A little more on that… Civilizations tend not to just run out. Sometimes they fail through stupidity, as when [...]

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