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Just remember this, kids: No matter what magical drivers you have installed, Windows doesn\’t REALLY understand Linux file systems. They may be civil to one another, might even share some good times, but at the heart of it, they\’re incompatible. Especially when it comes to symbolism. Those symbolic links will confuse Windows every time. I…

I\’ve been using WordPress to host my blog out of the blue for a while now. I post both to my blog and to LiveJournal (because community is good stuff). Today I discovered a plugin that does the cross-posting automatically. Hooray for laziness enablers! There was a slight edit necessary to get it to work…

Tonight I\’ve been working on my book tracker. I changed the database to have a table for authors, a table for books, and a table for readings (and a table to connect authors to books, but you probably don\’t care to know that). This means I have a lot more power to generate statistics about…

I just randomly picked up The Great Gatsby. I hadn\’t read it, and thought I ought to. But as I was reading, I came across the term \”football\” and failed to think of American football; I came across the term \”East\” and thought of Asia, rather than the East coast. I\’ve been substituting them for…

Tomorrow I take Sarah to Heathrow Airport to see her off. I read Neil Gaiman\’s journal today and noticed that he was in the UK for Eastercon, a science fiction convention. For kicks, I looked at the convention\’s web site. It is this weekend. At a hotel 1.6 miles from Heathrow airport (I could walk…

On the way back from Norwich a few days ago, Sarah and I climbed the cast-iron fence that encircled a cemetary. It was a singularly pleasant place with lush green grass and a large avenue of regal trees down the center. We sat on a bench and ate fudge we had bought at the market.…

Sarah is here and it is wonderful. I may not post much over the next two weeks.

Where was this photo taken? What might live there? Do you want to visit? (I certainly do.) (Click for a larger version. And don\’t bother with metadata. It has been stripped by Photoshop.)

So, this girl in my flat has had a rather small box of tea bags in her cupboard since September. She mentioned it today when I was brewing some cheap Assam, saying that she thought that she drank tea all the time. Apparently not. I think the British don\’t so much adore tea as drink…

Today\’s weather was unpredictable. The sunny afternoon was interspersed with furious hailstorms and pelting rain. After one such outburst died down, I started walking into town with the vague hope of getting to a bookstore before the next one began. I made it, but as I walked into the bookstore I could see another front…