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I’m pretty loyal to WordPress; it’s the only blogging platform I’ve ever used, and I even wear the T-shirt (the red one). And one of the loyal things I do is to read what they have to say under “Other WordPress News” every now and then.
Today, while doing just that, I came across this story [...]

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I’ve never been a fan of e-mail, and I won’t bore you with my rants. Suffice it to say that it worked once, could work again, but only as an electronic equivalent of snail-mail; that it is not fit for purpose today as a multilateral communications medium; that misuse of e-mail is rampant, particularly via [...]

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I’ve been reading William Gibson’s Spook Country for the past few days; it feels different from his earlier books, there’s an increased sense of curious detachment in the observer/narrator. Somewhere within the early pages of the book, Gibson mentions a wooden top in passing.
And that’s what this post is about. Wooden tops. And the other [...]

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I keep getting told that perception is everything. I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those guys who finds that statement puerile. It’s like telling me “Hypocrisy is OK, live with it”.
Not getting my drift? Let me take an example. “Laziness”. Some people get called lazy because you see them lounging around at [...]

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