Archive for September 15th, 2006


Move from Blogger beta to WordPress

WebbleYou tells how. (Warning. It’s deeply convoluted, so non-geeks may want to wait for WP to update the import routine to handle Blogger beta rather than attempt this.)

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Don Carlo

From the LA Times review

Terrorism is enforced by religious extremists controlling government. A popular uprising is the result of an unpopular war in which a superpower is ensconced in a distant land where it isn’t wanted.

This would be Verdi’s opera, Don Carlo, which is based in Spain in 1560. Sue and I saw it Wed. night. Sweeping and epic, to be sure, but unrelentingly grim. Betrayal, treachery, a despotic King, and overhadowing it all is the Grand Inquisitor. As you might expect, it ends badly for those who would fight for freedom. Me, I prefer epic sagas where the good guys don’t die painful deaths.

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Where’s Riverbend?

She’s a young Iraqi woman living in Baghdad who blogs eloquently about the disintegrating situation there. Her last post, dated Aug. 5, was pessimistic. Things had become impossibly dangerous, and many were leaving.

Now it’s been almost six weeks since that post, and while she can go weeks without posting, this is her longest pause yet.

Godspeed, Riverbend.

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Goat marries man

But what does the goat have to say about this?

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