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Here’s the link. I’m not sure I’ll stick with it.
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I was able to move the blog in its entirety from Typepad to WordPress. I was actually pretty impressed with the speed and accuracy of that process. There are some glitches, the only really notable one being that block quotes are not displayed as such unless/until I edit the post, click a certain button, and
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Yesterday I received the following email from Typepad, the blogging service on which this blog is built: It's not a total shock, though it is a shock. I've known for some time that Typepad was not doing well. WordPress long ago surpassed them in customer numbers, and I doubt their respective counts are within an
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I have a bad habit, bad and lifelong, of not bothering to look up unknown words encountered when I'm reading. I make a guess based on the context, or perhaps just ignore the word altogether, figuring or at least hoping that it isn't that important, and press on. I have done that for years with
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I had planned to go, then decided not to go, then decided to go, then didn't. The reasons wouldn't interest you, but one reason for the shifts was that I wasn't all that enthusiastic about the program. There were two pieces, the first being a Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists, by Philip Glass. What? Or
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I refer to the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. As I've had more than one occasion to mention here, there is something in the experience of live music that just can't be had by listening to recordings at home, no matter how good the recording or the system reproducing it. The orchestra doesn't have to be one
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Having been thwarted twice in attempts to hear a live performance of this work, and being pretty old, I'm probably not going to get another chance at it. Oh well; I'm happy that there are recordings. For Christmas of 2019 one of my children and her husband gave my wife and me tickets to a
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This poem is now in the public domain. So I've copied it from another site. It is of course appropriate for today, the Feast of the Epiphany in the Catholic calendar. Normally I set off quotations longer than a sentence or so as "block quotes," which means that they're indented on the right, which means,
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In 2022 I was thinking seriously about ending this blog. Then I realized that if I kept it going through 2023 it would have run for exactly twenty years, a nice round multiple of ten. (You can read the very first post, from January 4, 2004, here.) I liked that idea, and decided to give
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From the New York Times: DeSantis Says He Would Pass a Bill to ‘Supersede’ Obamacare I'm not even bothering with a link, just as I didn't bother clicking on the headline. I wouldn't have been able to read it, and in this case the headline is the story. I hope I don't have to tell
Light On Dark Water 