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From his blog: Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, “What happens after death?” The Roshi replied, “I don’t know.” Wavy protested, “But you’re a Zen Master!” “Yes,” the Roshi admitted, “but I’m not a dead Zen Master.”

…and lo, there was light – all over the bleedin’ house, when the power finally came on at 2.55 this afternoon. After 44 hours of no electricity, when the storms on sunday cut power to most of the region. We’d just about used up all our candles, I’d done every bloody suduku puzzle in my […]

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

….groan. Got loads of stuff to get on with. This morning, I’ve been working on the redesign of the Oakleaf Circle site, copying over hundreds of URLs. And checking them, as well. I’ve got a useful little freeware program that checks links, but it can only tell me if a link is dead or not. […]

…..we don’t need to examine the Universe as a supernatural creation. It is enough — more than enough — to examine it naturally. The sense of awe, beauty, wonder, and joy we feel when we view a Hubble image of a distant galaxy is a natural product of our sense of discovery. It is more […]

I’ve finally sorted out the software problem that was stopping me from uploading pictures from my camera – turned out I needed an update for my motherboard, in addition to the card-reader driver. So – here’s a recent picture, taken a couple of days ago. It’s the field below my house, and the loch is […]