Archive for April, 2008

Saturday Morning

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Wake up just before 7, no alarm. Slink out of bed, leaving one cat and wife still dozing. Orange cat follows me into the bathroom, then the kitchen, where I make my every-day-cup of Irish Breakfast tea. Sit down, catch up on friend’s blogs, than political blogs, then the Times. Orange [...]

With web powers come web responsibilities…

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

… or in other words, it’s time to start consciously keeping up with new social/technology tools I’ve previously ignored. I got on Facebook earlier in the year, and this morning I set myself up on Twitter, as adamehirsch.
For a long time I’ve assumed that these sites (and many, many others) required one to have [...]

Things not to do in a week with deadlines

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

1) Start reading Iain M. Banks’ latest book, “Matter.”
That is all.

Hard to blame the cats on this one

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Usually we blame the cats for anything that disturbs our sleep. This is because it’s usually our cats who do it: walk on our heads? Check. Demand to burrow under the covers between us? Check. Horrible, gurgling, caterwauling in the wee hours of the morning? Check. Vile substances [...]

” … are doomed to repeat it.”

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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Not my picture, but the content is too astounding to let pass.