Last night I was reading this article in the Guardian, that was published in 2002, about the “Millennium Challenge” wargame, where the military was outfoxed by the ex-marine consultant they hired to play the bad guy: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Wake-up call. I got the link from a post over on Antonella’s […]

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Antonella asks Where did you get your news today? and explains how, after the 7/7 bombings in London, the truly visceral understanding of the news was to be found on the greater ‘net rather than in ‘official’ news channels like CNN.

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I’ve been trying to tweak my weblog to make use of all the various meta resources that seem to be cropping up like chickweed. And I have a confession to make … I’m sick of it.
I know that in order to be a part of the true enlightened blogigarchy, I should have RSS feeds in […]

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I love my new town, Phoenixville, PA. I ran across this article online about it (a little old but still informative). I need to do a post about Phoenixville sometime, and keep a link to it on my homepage.
Phoenixville, PA: Up From The Ashes of “Steel City” by John W. Plummer

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Philip Pullman: About the Writing
I don’t know whether there’s a God or not. Nobody does, no matter what they say. I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away.
Actually, if he is […]

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CNN.com - Ivan makesÝlandfallÝin U.S. - Sep 16, 2004
After a deadly rampage across the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms on record made landfall near the resort town of Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 1:50 a.m. (2:50 a.m. ET) on Thursday.
My mom and stepdad live in Gulf Shores. They’re presumably […]

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Once again I find I’ve been remiss in keeping up with by cyberspace um… presence.
So nearly a year late, I’ve updated my little bio page at IAwiki: AndrewHinton
It’s odd, how bits of us end up all over the web, like flakes of skin or eyelashes. Imagine if every bit of you that you left […]

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CNN.com - Spalding Gray found dead - Mar 8, 2004
I discovered Spalding Gray’s wit when I first saw Swimming to Cambodia in the theater in… wow, it must’ve been 1987 or so? I saw it with my girlfriend, who later became my wife. We were both confused at first in the film, then amazed that […]

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I have found myself in Pennsylvania. How? I got a job. This is a good thing, the getting a job part.
The weird part is that it’s at Vanguard, just outside Philadelphia… far away from where I was living. It’s complicated my life, but hopefully in a good way.
Not much going on here at […]

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Labor day weekend, my marriage broke. Asunder. Splinters scattered all about the place. What has followed is a difficult separation, now going on for about 10 weeks. I’m not going to go into details about it… it just is what it is. But, I figure it’s about time I put something here acknowledging it, no? […]

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Ok. I may have found something that explains a lot of stuff about me. Great article: The Atlantic | March 2003 | Caring for Your Introvert | Rauch

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