They walked around Alexandria’s main boulevard for a little under a mile, passing colorful awnings, open-air markets, and brown brick buildings redolent of coffee and exotic spice. The street opened into a square, a few palms at its center swaying … Continue reading
I’ve switched over to Feedly for my RSS reader (because of Google closing down Reader), which doesn’t seem to respect my tab formatting here. Alas; I spent an inordinate amount of time getting those right. Then again, I don’t think … Continue reading
They walked half an hour more to reach the Rosetta Gate, passing four redoubts on the heights outside the city, all flying the Union Jack. The slender barrels of anti-aircraft guns poked above the fortifications. Ominous, Cannon thought. The British … Continue reading
Hello, people I actually know! I hope you become regulars. I’ve done some interesting things behind the curtain here lately, in an effort to get myself a little higher in the Google rankings for the query ‘many words’1 which I’ll … Continue reading
That’s right: exactly three years ago today, I posted the first update to Many Words. Now, I’ll grant you, that figure includes at least a year’s worth of hiatus and probably about a year of spotty updates, but it’s either … Continue reading
They’d worked out a few more details, then, and the abbot had given Cannon a meeting place, the Church of the Holy Virgin in central Alexandria. The British had been the dominant influence in Egypt for decades, but in the … Continue reading
I keep my writing in a mercurial repository that runs on the web server which runs this site. I’ve apparently been quite bad at getting writing from my multiple computers committed and pushed, because I’m missing both #7 and #10. … Continue reading
It’s not writing, so don’t go getting your hopes up, but I’ve taken to heart the thought that it’s better to have the wrong content than no content at all, on the basis that habit is more important than any … Continue reading
I am not a father, but I wish a very good day upon any fathers out there, especially my own. Supposing there are any fathers in my very short list-o-readers, I also apologize for the news that updates are coming … Continue reading
It’s crunch time at work, and my choice for my writing time this week is either type updates or get further ahead on writing. I hope you understand when I say I’d rather get further ahead on writing. The Fish … Continue reading
