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- Severe weather? Are you sure?
I’m off to San Francisco in eight days, so I thought I’d pop over to Yahoo weather to check out the conditions there. And I was alarmed to see a “severe weather warning” for the surrounding areas…
…FROST ADVISORY THROUGH MID MORNING FOR THE ENTIRE SAN FRANCISCO
BAY REGION EXCEPT THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO…PERSONS IN THE [...]
- Killer nuts
It’s the season to consume vast amounts of stuff we’d never normally touch, including marzipan, fruit puddings and re-runs of Bond movies. But, according to the Adam Smith Institute weblog, one element is missing this year - Brazil nuts.
Dr Madsen Pirie opens with the perennial problem of securing enough Brazil nuts in the festive [...]
- Competition blowback
Well, an idle trawl through the technorati listing for our new weblogs special shows there’s certainly plenty of reaction to the Blogs competition. Predictably, most of the row appears to be over the winner of one award and the fact s/he might be/claims to be/is a call girl (gasp!) rather than the quality of her [...]
- Bad writing
Struggling through book after academic book for my OU course, one feeling recurs far too frequently. Reading a sentence for the third, maybe fourth time, I suddenly get the concept the author’s trying to explain. It’s a great moment, hearing that penny drop, the kind of thing that makes this huge slog worth it. Even [...]
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