She says you can’t just go around making things up, so she’s suing the defendant for $5,000. The defendant says she and the plaintiff grew up together. She alleges the plaintiff is harassing her and making her life miserable, so she’s countersuing for $8,000. Then, the plaintiff...
Ashley writes that “this volume [became] longer than anticipated and has meant that I have had to prune the appendices.” As we’ve seen, there are other things he could have pruned but there are still near enough a hundred pages of appendices, almost entirely a list of every issue of...
Things I didn’t want to win won – c’est la vie. However, my choice for Best Non-Fiction – Rave And Let Die by Adam Roberts – did win so that was nice. I think Nick Hubble’s review of the book is worth reading alongside this win: There is something discordant, too, about ...
Here are a number of quotations and links and other nice things: “Ah, the tangle of it! Those who have the heart to help have not the power, and those who have the power have not the heart.” — Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (1901), Chapter 7 “The histor...
Subsonic Eye: the Singapore label Middle Class Cigars is releasing a wonderful album called “Nature of Things” by the also Singaporean combo Subsonic Eye. So far we can preview one of the songs, “Unearth”, which sounds amazing. It even hasa videoif you are not convinced. You’ll see ...
he held forth about how he was already doing us a favor because he’d researched the rental market and should be charging far more for rent, and wished we didn’t have any pets at all (both things he should have expressed before we ever signed a lease), before finally announcing that ...
so I am expecting there to be practically no overlap in what my code does. I have basically coded from scratch, and attempted to create aBreadCrumbcontrol that does all the things I would expect a re-usable breadcrumb Control to do, and allow the user to use it with the minimum of fuss...
She says you can’t just go around making things up, so she’s suing the defendant for $5,000. The defendant says she and the plaintiff grew up together. She alleges the plaintiff is harassing her and making her life miserable, so she’s countersuing for $8,000. Then, the plaintiff...