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My little sister, probably the coolest person I know, laughed down the phone at me this morning, when I told her that universal suffrage did not exist in Switzerland, at the cantonal level, until 1991. The year before she started at school, the women of Appenzell Innerrhoden got the right to vote. Now, Rosie’s not [...] Costigan Quist says he’s not taking the Ada Lovelace challenge. But I think he’s missed the point, and in my own rambling fashion, I’ll shortly explain why. Before I do though, what is the challenge? Suw Charman-Anderson set up a pledge on PledgeBank, saying “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a [...] Kae has posted his thoughts on enjoying a drink. I can’t seem to leave a comment, but I think he’s missed a fairly vital point. I’m all in favour of enjoying alcohol. Wine or sherry, cider or beer, champagne or cocktails. Red wine isn’t generally my tipple of choice, but there are apparently clear benefits to [...] The instructions for the pizza said to put it on a baking tray in the oven for ten minutes, at 180°C. Hoping to avoid dirtying the scarily-clean Swiss baking tray I had bought earlier today (because there was no way I was going to dirty the terrifyingly clean tray provided), I put some baking parchment [...] Once I got my start date from Google, it took us a little while to figure out when we should do the actual move. Obviously, we needed to have enough time to pack up on the Irish side, but we also wanted some time to settle in on the Swiss side, before I started in [...] I’m not sure what to say today. On the one hand, the things I said last year are as true today as they were then. On the other, sentences like those found in the “Pink is not a colour representing women’s advancement” [caps moderated to save your eyes] section of the “Official IWD Colours” webpage, [...] On Friday, Stephen’s latest Komplett order arrived in the office. He was due to have dinner with me after work, and duly did (including the tastiest chocolate brownie of all tasty chocolate brownies), leaving his laptop and the boxes to be picked up later. Mark phoned to say he was en route from Roscrea, and [...] My program says that “What Val gave a picture was a charity” is a valid sentence – and I think it’s right… I still haven’t decided whether “Sal suggested Val to hate a cat” is valid or not though. I think I might love linguistics. Or hate it. It’s hard to tell. So, my very funky Moo cards arrived the other day… They’re uber-pretty, even if they are taken from my photos, and the presentation was an object lesson in shiny Unfortunately, I’m currently holding off on ordering a bunch of them, because of the text on the back… I wanted to have my name – [...] I have no hot water in my apartment. Not even lukewarm. Haven’t had since Sunday. The weather has turned, it’s grey, wet, and kinda chilly (at least compared to the last few weeks). I’m somewhat less than impressed. Many thanks to Emer, who came to the rescue by letting me use her shower – it’s [...] |
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