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16th June 2010JuneIt's June and we're already more than half-way through the month. The summer solstice always makes me a bit sad. It's the longest day of the year, the height of astronomical summer, but it also marks the start of a relentless decline. Every day will surely be dimmer than the last, until the end of the year. I hope life's not like that. I hope I'll always have a longer day to look forward to ((Or at least I hope to live without knowing that there are no longer days to come.)). Perhaps that hope is enough. I've decided that May is ...
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10th May 2010À GrenobleHello Internet, I would have told you this sooner but I am away. I've had very strong feelings about this trip, and I knew I would and I wanted to record my state of mind throughout the course of planning and then doing my little InterRail trip. Right now I'm in Grenoble. I wish I could post pictures but I don't think I can; the surrounding mountains are amazing. Grenoble's called the 'capital of the Alps' in France, and rightly so. I hope tomorrow is better, but today the city is infested with thunderstorms, with huge bolts of lightning reaching down from ...
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5th May 2010OffLong story which I'm not going to tell, at least not now: I was due to start a month-long InterRail tour of France today, but my flight was cancelled, thanks to Iceland's crazy volcano. I was due to fly 10 minutes after the restrictions started! I spent hours queueing - at least there was a nice French girl in front of me. It turns out I'm going tomorrow; travelling to London by train and then getting an overnight coach to Paris, where I will resume my itinerary ((I'm out of pocket quite a bit; it could have gone to a much ...
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1st May 2010The TelephoneMarco found a quotation by Rick Webb that I want to share: The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. It was never okay. Read the whole thing. It's exactly what I've been thinking and feeling for a long time and now I've finally got around to expressing ...
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1st May 2010WiBu TimeWiBu left a comment: How did you vote if you do not mind me asking? You definitely seem like an SNP guy to the core, it flows through your veins (but I guess you voted Liberal). Thanks WiBu, that's an excellent question. I'll answer it here so all my loyal readers can get to know me a bit better. One thing: I can't tell if you're being serious in the second sentence ((Is it another Cher lyric?)). Do you actually think I seem like an SNP guy? And why do you think I voted for the Liberal Democrats? (I suppose my Twitter stream ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
