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30 Days – Day #12: Privacy

December 12th, 2009 No Comments

Another “whatever takes my fancy” topic. I’m a fairly private sort of person – while my blogs talk about the things I’m interested in they don’t generally talk about me, and my private life very much. And on the back of Google’s COE saying some fairly idiotic and hypocritical things, well, the subject [...]

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30 Days – Day #10: Friendship

December 10th, 2009 No Comments

This one isn’t in-line with rest of the meme – it’s one of the days I’m opting out of, because I don’t have any photos of me that I like from 10 years ago on-line, or any practical means of getting them there. Instead, I’m doing a topic that Budgie asked for – what [...]

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30 Days – Day #5: My Favourite Quotation

December 5th, 2009 No Comments

“I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I can bang on about this quote in any number of ways. And I’m going to, so settle in.
We’ll start with the most basic: answering a question about quotation with a quotation that proclaims my hatred of them is, well, I think [...]

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Bruce Sterling At Reboot

July 10th, 2009 No Comments

Shut up and listen to the clever man.

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The Hobgoblin Of A Small Mind

January 20th, 2009 No Comments

In conversation with some friends tonight, it was pointed out to me that I am logically inconsistent. We started out with a conversation about BDSM over noodles, as one so often does. My position on this is that of a reasonable human being: “your kink is not my kink, but your kink is [...]

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