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Another in my continuing series of re-posts from my work blog, this one shows a couple of pages from a short guide to library handwriting. ...

I haven't written about the US and Chnia recently. There hasn't been much to say since things remain as they were. If there's ...

I ride my bike most every day. Weekdays it's 9 miles of commuting each way; Sundays, if I feel like it, I might do 30 miles on roads th...

Here are two items on "the mundane indignities and brutalities of class." I got the first of them from blogdex . It's a news...

Here's another frivolous post from my work blog. It's the War on Terror as a computer program. Actually not really a computer prog...

logogle is a Google logo maker. Try it and see.

If you open my current reading box on the right, you'll see that I've devoured Joe Simpson's Touching the Void (well literally...

I'm sure you've all been waiting for my report on riders from the Netherlands in this year's Tour de France . These riders gene...

I'm copying from the work blog I run at the Library. That blog consists mostly of administrative and library tech stuff, but I indulge ...

Don't know why, but I'm interested in web design -- fonts, colors, placement of content.... all that. Logos too. Here's one th...

I continue to read about the global economy and particularly the relations of China and the U.S. It's widely recognized that there...

Crooked Timber has an excellent "Friday fun" post about bad scenes in great movies and great scenes in bad movies . The whole thi...

This is good! Jon Carroll wrote a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle telling the religious right to get a grip on reality. In telling t...

Wikipedia has some good quips by Mitch Hedberg , the comedian who died young -- of heart failure -- a couple of days ago. Here's a sa...

Friends from the first days in Pittinger; a great college roommate whose grown-up accomplishments put me in awe; your life is an inspiration...

Lately, we have been watching the BBC miniseries, The Barchester Chronicles over dinner. Full of gratitude to our friend John F. for the r...

Rain today, giving opportunity for a haircut; haircut weeks overdue. The opportunity arrives because I can drive to work and stop off for t...

This is an essay about balance. I use the word essay in Montesquieu's sense: an attempt, a trial; embarking on a small journey without...

I forget how I first happened to see Barrie Maguire's art. I think someone included this Joyce image on his blog. He, Maguire, does pa...

Let me say upfront that what I'm writing about here is a genuine confusion of mine, not a rhetorical pretense. (Not, as you all know, t...