Author Archives: Anton

back to the drawing board

Posted on Sunday, 2002 August 25 by Anton

Buddhists say that happiness comes through detachment from desire. Don’t believe it.

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the economic puzzles of rivers

Posted on Saturday, 2002 August 24 by Anton

New Scientist: Europe’s worst ever floods linked to poor land management: Engineers have channelled all the major rivers that flooded this month – draining wetlands, straightening meanders and cutting them off from their flood plains with high banks. The aim … Continue reading →

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all about alphabets

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 22 by Anton

Omniglot – a guide to writing systems. I have seen nothing like this on the Web. It even shows some scripts missing from my various books on the field.

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served him right

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 August 21 by Anton

Some say a woman ought not to try to defend herself with a gun, because her attacker will just take it away from her and shoot her with it. Ha ha ha!

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who succors the unsought?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 August 21 by Anton

It’s ages since I got a spam of the form “For $39.99 we’ll submit your site to 273 top search engines . . . .” Remember them? I always wondered who the heck would buy that service.

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