marginalia
is the Latin word for 'things in the margin', and refers to writing or decoration in the margins of a manuscript. I am exploring the edges and margins of our world through photographs and writing....from February 5, 2011...
I was too busy writing elsewhere to write here this time last year. So many words, so little time...
Roughly translated...
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
how much is that doggy in the window?
Mark Bernstein has been asking some interesting questions about how much is the value of money through history. For some reason I’ve always found this to be interesting – as a teen I didn’t understand inflation – all I knew … Continue reading
Posted in explorations
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rasterbation doesn’t make you blind
Once, I planned a surprise for Marica’s birthday. I’d found this wonderful *free* software ‘the Rasterbator‘, which takes your standard image and allows you to print it big. Way big. Hugely big. You run out of toner and paper big. … Continue reading
Posted in stoking the creative fire
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cone of silence
I bought an early xmas pressie for us – the 30gb iPods. Yay! They’ve been a while coming while I reconciled myself to paying about four or more times what I’d expect to pay for a 30gb hard drive. You … Continue reading
christhit is coming…
One of the things I love to hate is pseudo-political correctness gone mad, particularly when this is applied to perfectly clear English by petit bureaucrats. Makes me furious with frustration at the stupidity, and waste of resource$. This week’s example … Continue reading
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walk the walk
Today has seemed rather more turgid than usual – my list of things to do recently has been expanding faster than I can cross things off, and today – ah, today – everything gridlocked and log jammed together. The great … Continue reading
Posted in stoking the creative fire, urban diary
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