What you do makes me cry at night May 30, 2007 12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suziki addresses the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro: I’m only a child and I don’t have Perhaps I can change my life May 27, 2007 We fall in love with the people who make us whole. Robertson Davies Or, more precisely but less quotably, we fall in love with people we see as Haw in Westminster May 27, 2007 Sat 2 June will mark the sixth year of Brian Haw’s gallant anti-war protest demonstration in Parliament Square Pynchon in Ireland May 27, 2007 On my way home from the Kx Systems conference in County Clare, Ireland, with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow a thick brick in my hand-baggage. It Sad rappas May 23, 2007 Listening to Eminem – the melancholy of rap. Rage over grief. Also my habitual response now to current events: grief and rage. Does Pynchon have an The uncleansably rich, and other practitioners of forgetfulness May 23, 2007 Thomas Pynchon has published a new book, Against the Day. What the ghost still doesn’t get is what the rest of the book is trying to tell us, in Career watch May 23, 2007 politics & wellbeing What will we not do for money and status? Release the lost sheep from the spell May 22, 2007 Weapons of mass destruction and states breaching their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1967 – does it never end? Terror – Creole technology May 22, 2007 software & views Crafts are characterised by deep study and practice, small teams and relatively simple tools, well understood. The smartest programmers I know work alone and with a simple text editor and a command shell. Balkan spice May 22, 2007 arts & journal Upcoming Balkan music gigs in London Bicycles beyond Brentwood May 22, 2007 journal A sally into Essex Balkan beats May 20, 2007 arts Three bands with the Balkan sound Moved May 20, 2007 Started (resumed?) blogging here after the collapse of my Movable Type blogging engine at 5jt.com. For the last year the Perl scripts were regularly Last night’s Orient Express May 20, 2007 Olivia Furness event at the Arcola Theatre was also Aysegül’s birthday party. Who would not want Orkestra del Sol down from Edinburgh to play for