Tag Archives: brian micklethwait

Quote of the day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 22, 2009

From the always-entertaining Brian Micklethwait on the dangers of writing blog entries in advance and then getting them to automatically post while you’re away on holiday: I’ve never really felt right with that.  What if an atom bomb goes off, and there I am still blogging about, basically, kittens?  (I know, the internet would not [...]

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Brian and his failing neighbourhood

By 6000 | 6000 | August 14, 2008

One of the few sites I unfailingly enjoy reading is Brian Micklethwait’s eponymous blog. It has a unique combination of a blend of subjects and topics that generally interest me, together with an endearing, informal, almost narrative writing style. It’s easy, interesting, pleasurable reading. However, even by his usual high standards, I felt that Brian excelled himself earlier this week. And I would have written [...]

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This is how I remind me

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2008

Is it just the drugs, or when you get to my age, does your short term wotsit start to fail? I find myself using words like wotsit instead of the specific noun I should have used – just like my grandmother used to do. Thingumie is only a short time away now. And from there I’ll start calling my [...]

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“My most important reader is me”

By 6000 | 6000 | April 7, 2008

Why do we blog? It’s a question that many inferior bloggers attempt (and fail) to answer on an all too regular basis (along with an annoying tendency to use the word “musing” far too often). Brian Micklethwait* knows why he blogs: … every so often I have to remind you people that my most important reader [...]

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