Out of Ambit
Ireland
An interesting couple/few days
As some of you may have heard, this has been an unusual week in this corner of county Wicklow. At some point in the recent past, someone skimmed my bank card — whether during the pre-Christmas period or more recently, we’re still not sure. In the last few days, someone started playing around with a [...]
The Calanda Saga Continues
So I finally got into Windows XP recovery console a few times and took a look around. The error message I’d been receiving was this one: “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM” …which pretty much means a corrupted registry file. This can be fixed in the console, though [...]
CSI:Middle Kingdoms (aka “Borderlands”: a fragment)
After a dry spell that lasted way too long for our farmer-neighbors’ preference, we’ve been having a lot of rain in the last couple of weeks, and as a result the grain in the fields has made up for lost time and is now coming along a lot better than it was doing in May [...]
At Dublin Zoo: Jorong the Orangutan and the Moorhen Chick
From the Irish Times: “The YouTube clip shows a male Bornean orang-utan, named Jorong, careening over rocks at the edge of his enclosure where an injured moorhen chick flaps about in a pond. The ape spends a number of minutes patiently coaxing the duckling ashore with a leaf before gently lifting it onto grass behind [...]
Some Ryanair moments
A friend asked to see these videos, so I thought I’d bundle them together in a single post. They’re comments on a certain airline which unarguably has changed the face of aviation in Europe — unquestionably for the better — but has since turned into something of a nightmare. Our own nightmare unfolded during the [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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