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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 Bad Headline

This just seems like a really poorly composed headline to me:

Petræus Urges Halt in Weighing New Cut in Force

...Wait, he urges what? A... halt in... weighing... a new cut in... force! Ok, so Congress is weighing a new cut in force. So Petræus is not urging them to reject the cut, he's urging them to stop talking about it! But you need to parse the headline for about 30 seconds to figure that out. (Not happy about the content of the article either but that is more a quibble with the times than with the Times.)

posted afternoon of Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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What's of interest:

➪	Pet's published her P's and Q's, including some Hot 5 tracks.
➪	NCAA: don't follow college basketball? Follow cheese instead! (via)
➪	Kate Beaton was interviewed on CBC Radio!
➪	LanguageHat (and Mrs. LH) just finished reading Proust's Remembrance; LH liked it but found it a little overlong. (LH also reports on a new book that sounds just great.)

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