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Archives for December, 2010
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More snow
We're now on our second distinct period of snow this winter, although not all of the early December stuff had gone before Saturday's blizzard dumped another four inches on us in less than two hours. The reaction this time is noticeably different. Although road conditions are definitely worse there seems to be more of an attempt to carry on as normal. Shopping on Sunday was very busy and trains also appear to be running better than a couple of weeks ago, and the school is open
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The Atrocity Archives
A friend put me onto this book, saying that he was sure I'd like it. So I sneaked a copy of Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives into one of my orders of Christmas presents. My only regret is that I didn't know about these stories before. Charles Stross has taken some lovecraftian horror, added geekery and then put it into a British civil service context for the conspiracy cover-up, although it is much more a case of hiding the cock ups as on a low The basic premise is that magic is just about doing mathematics, which makes using computers a serious occult capability. It sort of puts the sysadmin up there with sorcery, which given the jokes about getting SCSI to work needing black candles and a blood sacrifice makes some sort of sense. I certainly could identify a…