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Just Passing Through
Jul. 8th, 2004 09:41 pmI'm trying out Xjournal, a rather nifty LJ client for Mac OS X. It's all very pretty. Club 977 is an 80s Internet radio station, by the way. Pure cheese, all day long. Fantastic.
I had a brief stay in Edinburgh, for a wedding, last weekend. I took a few photographs of the place. Edinburgh is full of impressive architecture. Describing it as "pretty" doesn't really do it justice, as that seems a little twee, which it isn't.
That was the first of a run of weddings this year. It was a good start, with a ceidlidh afterwards (at which my theory that Karl Sandeman plays all ceidlidhs, ever, was disproved). S asked them to play a slow waltz. We ended up having the floor to ourselves and getting compliments on our dancing. I don't imagine that'll happen at the big ballroom dancing wedding in a couple of weeks.
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sumanah, has the answer to why prayers sometimes go unanswered. Now you know where you've been going wrong.
I recently finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a historical novel set in the late 1600s. It's a bit of a departure for Stephenson, who usually does cyberpunk, but it's still got his usual style and frenetic set-piece scenes. The Waterhouse and Shaftoe families, familiar from Cryptonomicon, turn up as a friend to Isaac Newton and as a Vagabond, respectively. I found it hard to keep track of just who was related to whom in the noble families mentioned, before deciding that it was better to just give up and enjoy the ride. The name dropping and anachronisms jar occasionally, but all in all, it's well worth a read. Stephenson has avoided his usual problem of weak endings by making this the first book of a trilogy, so the ending is not the ending at all.
I'm thinking of getting a new phone, which will of course incorporate Bluetooth technology. Currently it's a toss-up between the Nokia 6600 and the Sony Ericsson T610. Anyone got any experience of either of those? I'd like one with a decent organiser that I can sync with iCal, as I want something which will go beep at me when I'm about to miss important appointments.
I had a brief stay in Edinburgh, for a wedding, last weekend. I took a few photographs of the place. Edinburgh is full of impressive architecture. Describing it as "pretty" doesn't really do it justice, as that seems a little twee, which it isn't.
That was the first of a run of weddings this year. It was a good start, with a ceidlidh afterwards (at which my theory that Karl Sandeman plays all ceidlidhs, ever, was disproved). S asked them to play a slow waltz. We ended up having the floor to ourselves and getting compliments on our dancing. I don't imagine that'll happen at the big ballroom dancing wedding in a couple of weeks.
Leonard of Crummy.com, boyfriend to
sumanah, has the answer to why prayers sometimes go unanswered. Now you know where you've been going wrong.I recently finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a historical novel set in the late 1600s. It's a bit of a departure for Stephenson, who usually does cyberpunk, but it's still got his usual style and frenetic set-piece scenes. The Waterhouse and Shaftoe families, familiar from Cryptonomicon, turn up as a friend to Isaac Newton and as a Vagabond, respectively. I found it hard to keep track of just who was related to whom in the noble families mentioned, before deciding that it was better to just give up and enjoy the ride. The name dropping and anachronisms jar occasionally, but all in all, it's well worth a read. Stephenson has avoided his usual problem of weak endings by making this the first book of a trilogy, so the ending is not the ending at all.
I'm thinking of getting a new phone, which will of course incorporate Bluetooth technology. Currently it's a toss-up between the Nokia 6600 and the Sony Ericsson T610. Anyone got any experience of either of those? I'd like one with a decent organiser that I can sync with iCal, as I want something which will go beep at me when I'm about to miss important appointments.
