Please apologize the glitches while I upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.2.
Things are sort of OK now, except I have lost the navigation sidebar in single post view.
I will probably not bother, as this upgrade is part of the big moving plan.
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Let’s face the bare truth: I did not enjoy reading Mrs Dalloway as much as I had hoped I would. It was my third attempt at reading something by Virginia Woolf, after two miserable failures with Jacob’s Room and Night and Day. This time, I had sworn to myself I’d finish the book, all the more so as it was recommended by Dorothy, Litlove, Kate and Bloglily.
Once again, I immediately felt drawn by Woolf’s prose: it feels like one of those crystal-clad chandeliers that send sparks and rainbows in all directions. But once again, the structure of the writing was too much for me.
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I have recently heard of a psychology experiment about altruistic behaviour in chimpanzees. Every chimp could pull one of two ropes. If they chose the left one, they got a banana. If they chose the right one, they got a banana too, but another chimpanzee got one as well.
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So there was this interview thing going on between the various bloggers around me. You got to be asked five questions and post the answers along with the questions on your blog. The fun part is that you could tag yourself: you just had to leave ‘interview me’ as a comment in somebody else’s interview post, and that somebody would have to send you five questions for you. I knew who I wanted to be interviewed by, so I just waited until Emily was interviewed by Charlotte (who had herself been interviewed by Kit, and so forth).
But you know I can never simply do a meme: I have to make it my very own. So I decided I’d do this interview as a pencast. It takes two people to make an interview; it takes two handwritings to make a pencast interview. I therefore shamelessly asked my patient interviewer to send me her questions again, but by analog pen-and-paper mail.
You are about to discover the first pencast duet in the history of the Internet.
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People living in Tokyo, San Francisco, Naples, know that maybe their house will be destroyed tomorrow and half their family will be dead. Yet they carry on with their lives. Many of them even manage to live happy lives, while they never forget altogether what might happen.
How about the rest of us? [more]