• Home Improvement - The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    Home, jiggity, blog

    August 31, 2008 - By 

    Wow, lots to catch up on. Too much to blog via iPhone, so may fire up the frankenmachine and sit properly at a desk for the first time in weeks. Church this morning was pretty good – outdoors again. Next week we go back to two services, and this year there will be much more differentiation musically and liturgically. Thanks be to God, I’m a High Church 77 Prayerbook / 82 Hymnal Liberal… I’m tired of singing out of Gather (a Catholic, slightly charismatic songbook) and never knowing which prayer to recite because my vicar loves to pull things out…

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    Farewell Ireland

    August 29, 2008 - By 

    All packed, trip over, didn’t take enough pictures or get back to Grafton Street or Temple Bar because we ran out of steam the last two days. But we had an amazing time and we’ll surely return. Economy and exchange rate be damned. We’ll return. More later, as I have to get to sleep.

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Yes they can: Chicagoans get entry to speech at last minute

    August 29, 2008 - By 

    Yes they can: Chicagoans get entry to speech at last minute — chicagotribune.com DENVER – The group of Chicago people who took a bus to the Democratic National Convention without credentials will get to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the nomination for president after all. They will be the ones in the white T-shirts showing people to their seats. Yay! They made it in! I’m so glad for them. It was one of the small stories reported in the Chi-Trib about the convention that caught my attention.

  • Hot Off The Presses - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Uhhh… German Best Western Worst Bestern?

    August 28, 2008 - By 

    So was Best Western’s system hacked – and if so how? | Technology | guardian.co.uk We’re currently staying in a BW chain hotel in Dublin, and we certainly hope we’re okay – that is, David is able to keep an eye on accounts from here (never you mind how). But this news of a German Best Western having ALL their client records from the last year hacked is not good.

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Tammy Duckworth, you GO, girl!

    August 28, 2008 - By 

    Daily Herald | Duckworth blasts McCain over military policy The former congressional candidate painted McCain as weak on veteran issues, despite his service as a Vietnam War veteran and POW. Duckworth touted Obama’s efforts at boosting GI health care and benefits. Duckworth now is head of the state’s veteran’s affairs department. She recently has been mentioned as a possible successor to Obama in the U.S. Senate should he win. Here we are in Dublin, Ireland, logging in to check the political news, and find this news item in my “local news” section of Google News. We voted for Tammy when…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    In Loo

    August 25, 2008 - By 

    A nicely appointed loo in a posh York teashop Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: In Loo By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Aug ’08, 6.34am CDT PST A nicely appointed loo in a posh York teashop Ginny I can has iPhone?