nourishing obscurity

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Not unlike Britain in mid-summer What’s with all this alarmist talk of drought?

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Thanks to those who completed the survey of this site – the results were quite conclusive – to keep the blog running, in a blog [not magazine] format, with content a bit like this: UK politics as is World politics as is Them [Common Purpose etc.] as is or more Music [usually at 19:00] as [...]

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Click pic And of course, here is that post on Hotel Chambermaids – auspicious, n’est ce pas? Firstly, he most certainly seems to be like that – that young woman relative describing him as a “rutting chimpanzee” and that’s in line with how that sort up there act – without restraint and feeling untouchable. What [...]

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Nothing wrong with a bit of introspection when that time comes round each year:

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With the advent of Orphans of Liberty, some of our private blogging has been overshadowed, particularly if they were heavily political blogs in the first place.  Though mine has a political thread running through it, somewhat caustically, there are other things in it as well and that raises some questions. Tom said that the multi-author [...]

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Very interesting map by Mark Wadsworth [click to enlarge], which includes Pribaltika [Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia] in Europe but does not allow Belarus or the Ukraine, allows Romania but not Bulgaria nor Serbia which began the European WW1. Russia is the interesting exclusion: A glance at the map above [and Russian maps make it even [...]

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That infiltration of Israel: At least one person was killed and dozens were wounded as IDF soldiers try to beat back nearly 1,000 Syrian Arabs who called themselves “Palestinians” and invaded the Golan Heights Sunday during Nakba Day protests. Syrian troops at the border did not prevent the infiltration. Analysts had predicted the possibility, suggesting [...]

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I’ll have to be swift with this. Someone banged on the door, I looked out of the window and a crowd of people are gathering downstairs plus the fire brigade and the police. It appears the house is on fire. If I don’t blog today, you’ll know why. I’ll try to get back to you [...]

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If those spiky-hairs, France or Blue win, I’m leaving this planet. The wine is at hand and the pizza. The Guardian’s live blogging. Are you organized? It begins. Don’t you love the way we approach it: #  Do you feel my heartbeat, Europe? He asks. Never mind Europe’s, mine’s finally come out of its catatonic [...]

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No doubt many will be posting on this. I’m surprised at the surprise, to be honest.  Chuckles quoted Mark Mayo of Joyent who commented – ‘It was fantasy believing it was possible to pull off a centralized network block storage service in a multi-tenant cloud without any of the architecture shenanigans our enterprise brethren do [...]

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Twilight left a comment on the Visiting Newcastle post with a link to Jimmy Nail singing “Big River” which stirred my remaining brain cell and I realised that this frozen wasteland has produced more than its fair share of musical talent. Here is Alan Hull with Lindisfarne recorded live at their 25th Anniversary concert at [...]

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Julia M mentioned, on Ross Fountain‘s post on the disabled: There was also much speculation as to the breakdown of the numbers involved – how many were genuinely disabled and how many were workers in the ancilliary industries, quangos and services that rely on them for jobs..? That’s right.  It’s a whole cottage industry, the [...]

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The Mississippi flood crest [Monday, May 9th] raises an interesting social issue – which is more important, a farm’s crops for the year and its livestock or a town not being flooded? As it threatened to be really bad, one of the solutions was to open the floodgates and inundate farms down below:

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