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Hobbies such as knitting, crochet, house renovation, gardening, reading

Blink and The Paradox of Choice

I know I’m really slow at review­ing Mal­colm Glad­well’s Blink: The Power of Think­ing Without Think­ing, since it’s been out for a couple of years now. I finally read it just in the last few weeks, after a col­leagure recom­men­ded that I read it and Barry Schwarz’s The Para­dox of Choice: Why More Is Less […]

2008 05 29 Books Comments (3)

Montréal in August

Sum­mer wouldn’t be sum­mer without a sum­mer con­fer­ence or two. There’s some­thing about walk­ing the streets or sit­ting in cafes, talk­ing about tech­no­logy, in balmy weather (well, when it doesn’t rain like it did at last year’s CSW XML Sum­mer School in Oxford). This year I’m off to Mon­tréal for Bal­is­age in the middle of […]

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2008 05 27 Conference
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Middle East Complexities

Tim poin­ted at a piece list­ing immoral solu­tions for Gaza, a piece which nicely proves that find­ing a good solu­tion is impossible, and find­ing the best of the bad solu­tions often seems equally impossible. I’m sure I’m not the only per­son flab­ber­gas­ted by the whole Israel/Lebanon/Palestine mess, and I’ve read a few books try­ing to […]

2008 03 07 Books Comments (0)

Retreating Fibre

I went to my first fibre retreat ever over the week­end (actu­ally, a four-day week­end, includ­ing Valentine’s Day, which struck me as ironic). The organ­isers of the retreat did a great job, given that the hotel was being ren­ov­ated, with some of the res­taur­ants and pub­lic spaces closed, and work­ers crawl­ing over much of the […]

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2008 02 20 Crafts
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Toddler Books

Our tod­dler daugh­ter (18 months old) likes hav­ing books read to her. Some of them are def­in­ite favour­ites, to be read as often as pos­sible, while oth­ers are the ones she likes when she’s told to go and get another book. They’re not neces­sar­ily books I would choose myself, but it’s not my taste that […]

2007 12 17 Books
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Physical Insights

Lest any­one think that phys­i­cists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park pub­lishes a short weekly news­let­ter that touches on sub­jects ran­ging from sci­entific hoaxes to incon­sist­en­cies in the way the U.S. Admin­is­tra­tion handles vari­ous issues. It mostly con­cen­trates on sci­ence and tech­no­logy, but not only. The Fri­day, Octo­ber 26, 2007 news­let­ter also discusses […]

2007 11 08 Books
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