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Spike: Some FAQs 23 Mar 2013 | 09:12 am
A heartfelt thank you for all your kind messages of support; truly I would not have kept writing as long as I have without the encouragement of feedback. Here are my answers to some frequently (or inf...
Exits and entrances: A table of contents 20 Mar 2013 | 04:23 pm
The numbers are the word count for the piece, to help you gauge how much time they’ll absorb; click on them for access. I’ve split the sixty-odd pieces I thought worth salvaging into seven “chapters”,...
Spike: No man but a blockhead 17 Mar 2013 | 02:41 pm
[This is the last ever Spike ramble, so slip on your stoutest trekking boots, decant a wee dram of aqua vitae into your hip-flask, and join me across a few rickety stiles and muddy, forgotten fields.]...
The Diffident Sandwiches of Uta Schreck 9 Feb 2013 | 07:36 pm
Every perturbation is a misery, but grief is a cruel torment, a domineering passion: as in Old Rome, when the Dictator was created, all inferior magistracies ceased; when grief appears, all other pass...
Pastor Niemöller Visits the Internet 4 Feb 2013 | 05:26 pm
Our goal is to get the user in and out really quickly. All our design decisions are based on that strategy. Irene Au, then Google director of user experience, 2009 Eventually, you’ll have the implant,...
Book Review: The Carbon Crunch 2 Dec 2012 | 06:51 pm
The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong—and How to Fix It, by Dieter Helm, Yale University Press “If the future of our climate rests on the ethical outlook of Vladimir Putin and the...
In praise of…The Brown Bear 23 Nov 2012 | 09:28 pm
If you go down in the woods today, you’d better not go alone, It’s lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home, For every bear that ever there was, Will gather there for certain because,...
Book review: Fresh Currents 9 Nov 2012 | 08:30 pm
[Fresh Currents: Japan's flow from a nuclear past to a renewable future can be downloaded for free and quickly here. It is also available from good bookstores, priced ¥2,000.] “In short, Fresh Current...
In praise of…Optimists 3 Nov 2012 | 04:10 pm
The chances that a small business will survive for five years in the United States are about 35%. But the individuals who open such businesses do not believe that the statistics apply to them. … If yo...
In praise of…The Oma-Hakodate ferry 14 Oct 2012 | 05:24 pm
I too board the ferryboat alone. Staring at the freezing seagulls, I cry. Oh, Tsugaru Straits, a winter scene… Farewell my love, I’m going home. The wind shakes my heart, just brings tears. Oh, Tsugar...
