Writing: 2000
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Bye
Please return to your homes. I don’t think I’ll be writing any more entries here.…
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An Ad
One for the British among you. Imagine you’re watching Channel 4. King of the Hill is…
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Bleeding Obvious
This is going to sound like stating the bleeding obvious, but bear with me: This huge fuss with the…
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Different Classes
I had my first classes this week, lumped together in a tidy but hectic cluster of six hours on…
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Back to School
Monday was the first day of my third semester, and I feel like an old hand. No stress, no rush, no…
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Undeveloped
24 glossy ghosts of you, I had to pay for 36. But they had a special offer on; I got a double set…
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Kulcha
Yesterday I briefly mentioned in an email how I find it strange hearing Americans speaking about…
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Big Brother
Yesterday I wrote something about how interesting Big Brother is in that you can see how CBS…
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Can become quite hypnotising
I was going to write a terribly insightful piece about how my life right now is remarkably similar…
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Hard copy
So very busy. Programs to write, files to move, words to write, books to read, lists to make,…
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My name is Phil and I am an…
I was going to write pages today. Screens full of dense text. Rich with insight and laughs. New…
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Late to the party
I really must write things down when I think of them, and not leave them hanging in the boxroom at…
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Here, have some email
I have other things to say, but, as usual, it’s too much effort to compose them into coherent…
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IJWLTS
I can’t be bothered to expand on anything. Is this why weblogs are so popular, because they…
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Top Ten Email Correspondents (by volume)
Trying to avoid thesis-writing without stepping into the dripping hot air outside lead me to do two…
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Bah humbug
Me: Hi. I paid a cheque in pounds sterling into my account at the end of May and after speaking to…
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Going under
I’ve only seen it maybe three times but, yes, I am addicted to Big Brother. It wasn’t…
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FutureFocus 2000 part two
It’s all over now, and it was exhausting. Although that was more to do with overly-long days…
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FutureFocus 2000 part one
Today was the first day of the World Future Society conference (or “FutureFocus 2000”…
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Back in the land of the free
I’ve returned to Houston for the rest of the year. It’s very strange to be somewhere so…
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Nothing much
This is not, by any stretch of the definition, daily. Really busy at the moment, and not much to…
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You have the power of wormholes
Last night, after the not-as-thrilling-as-it-once-was This Life we switched over to see Letterman.…
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Sun(SeaAndSand).com
While wealthy Silicon Valley tech stars spend their money and leisure time on fast cars and extreme…
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Fully connected with foray into network arena
I’ve been feeling so damned connected this year. Perhaps it’s because I was living so…
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You’re only young once or more
On Saturday two of my best friends were married after nearly ten years of coupledom. Is that a lot?…
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The end of the, erm, thingy
So I was reading this article at McSweeney’s, while our SQL server was rebooting, giving me…
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Not enough time to think of an original title
This networked life thing is fantastic, but it takes so long to just run my life these days. I feel…
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Hi
When I moved to suburban Houston last summer, the cynicism and grumpiness I had nurtured during…
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Back in Blighty
I’m now sat on the train from London to Braintree, a town at the end of a branch line off the…
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Clear Lake
Back in Houston for a few days, just enough time to wash clothes, shop, catch up on a few days of…
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Seattle
Things I didn’t do: visit Fremont or the University District; go on a ferry; get out of the…
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San Francisco
I’d forgotten how tastefully pretty the city is. Going to the same old stores was kind of…
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Sunnyvale
Endless sprawl and strip malls, just like “home” only different. Being driven…
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Santa Barbara
Sun, sea, people, blue skies, distant mountains. Bars, restaurants, shops, trees, cyclists,…
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School’s out for, etc.
No, I’ve really finished all my college work this time. And just in time to head off to the…
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Me, me, me
So, having almost emerged from my week or so of relentless work avoidance* I should be bursting…
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Priorities
I feel bad that I haven’t written in a while. I’ve entered the final two weeks of term…
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Dream a little dream
Do you ever dream about falling in love? An instant text-book case of looking into a…
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My new toy
I know, I owe this site some new words, and I’ve had a swirl of half-ideas drifting back and…
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The Dark Ages of Renaissance
But I had a headache, not quite a wincingly bad one but bad enough that I couldn’t face…
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There’s no here here
Every Friday I travel into downtown Houston to see a movie or two. Since selling my car a few weeks…
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Never falling
Three unsatisfactory analogies for how it feels to watch films like High Fidelity when you’ve…
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Blue things, white things, pinky-brownish things
Yesterday, given that it was a gorgeous and not too humid Houston day, I went for my first open-air…
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I can’t stop
Someone returned to Haddock after weeks off the list. It’s strange how quickly someone you…
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It’s a future, kinda.
So if I write something just after midnight, do I give it the date of “today”, like I…
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Diversion
You’d think I’d got better things to do than be here at 3.30am finishing yet another…
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Fuggedaboudit
I can clutch at straws for years. Long after a spark failed to light, a few well-read emails or…
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Jukebox
Maura wrote about which albums she’d put in a jukebox, and while I hate to appear like I have…
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The caravan
My mother sent me photos of the old caravan. For as long as I can remember, more than 25 years, my…
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Go outside
A midday call to my sister, only slightly coherent, my brain still whirling from everything…
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It’s all coming together nicely
It’s strange, but wonderful, when so many things click into place. Or, rather than clicking…
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People are stupid
I’ve been arguing with myself over whether to write something online for some time and this…