Thursday, June 11, 2020

Back in the saddle

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One of my most active files (almost 200 pages long) bears the title “Lockdown Diary” and consists of the urls of (and excerpts from) arti...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

An introductory summary of "Dispatches to the Next Generation - a bibliograph's notes from the last 50 years"

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The last 2 months I;ve had some problems with the internet - and used this as an opportunity to discipline myself to focus on the book I...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Apologies for the silence

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No, I haven't been ill! But at the very end of March something happened inside the old operational laptop I have where I've been se...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Visual and other Links I Liked

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1. When enforced isolation makes internet text even more seductive, this article reminds us of the painting treasures which are now s...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Critical Masses, Emperors and freebies

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The last post ended with a question - picked up by my fellow-blogger Boffy whose reply (posted as a comment on my blog) deserves a spotlig...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Scepticism and “Moral Panic”

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Here in Romania we’re effectively under Martial Law – which, most immediately, means that we have to justify our every journey with a s...
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Musical Interlude

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Earlier in the week, I shared some of the new musicians of whom I became fond during my travels in Central Europe and Central Asia between...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

On Perspective

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1. The chart shows the trajectory of reported COVID19 cases - with the number of cases on one axis and the time taken to reach that poin...
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