Monthly Archives: November 2007

Sidebar improvements

Posted on November 26, 2007 by mim

You may have noticed that the sidebar on this blog now contains things that are slightly less ignorable than before. If you’re reading the rss feed, then you probably haven’t noticed, but they’re just few more feeds to read. Gutsy … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Gutsy

Posted on November 25, 2007 by mim

I upgraded both of my computers to ubuntu version 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, a mere six months after upgrading to 7.4, Feisty Fawn. It was quite easy this time, the installer ran all the way through without stopping, but there were … Continue reading →

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The Jews in the Roman world

Posted on November 24, 2007 by mim

A long time ago now I read The Jews in the Roman World by Michael Grant, author of The Fall of the Roman Empire, which I read last year. In all my years of Hebrew school, we never really discussed … Continue reading →

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Bias incident

Posted on November 14, 2007 by mim

We’ve had a series of “bias incidents” at Columbia recently. In fact, there have been enough for the Columbia Spectator to create a nice timeline of them, which doesn’t include the most recent one. In October, right around the time … Continue reading →

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