Is it just me or…

…can you smell lightning too?
When the weather is going to change from dry, soul-sapping heat to a quick storm-like shower, when clouds are moving in over a blazing white sun, and the wind is revving itself up among the trees, can you smell the lightning? Does it travel up your sinuses, burning them up, searing [...]

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42

Akismet is quite wonderful at keeping away spam, but it’s all rather mysterious. It claims to have caught 42 spam on this blog; I have never seen a single one of the 42.
So, the question is, what happened to all my spam?

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Epiphany 2**

Googling “tips for hair growth” gives you about 1,270,000 results. Which just goes to show how desperate people are to make their hair grow.
You see, I decided to stop cutting mine, in September. In the hope that it would be long enough to tie up off my neck in March, which has sort of happened, [...]

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I have a question

Why are programmers trained in science/technology?
If their job is writing programmes, it’s ‘writing’, right? In fact, even more interesting, because they’re (at least sometimes) making up the language as they write. Their work has nothing to do with sci-tech – in fact, it’s only to them that 101010101 probably doesn’t read as ten lakh ten [...]

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Pi says…

…I will menopause only at eighty.
He also points out that there are some companies that have finally decided they want women in their workforces.
Both causes to celebrate, don’t you think?

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Can you tell

what a person is like over the phone?
How much can accents and pronunciation tell?
Can ‘cosmic currents’ create pressure?

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