Archive for October, 2004

Je pas ne parle pas français

October 31, 2004

ALL SAINT’S DAY, well not quite here in Montreal, but it certainly is over there.

MONTREAL is awesome – autumn, or fall as I’m learning to call it, is far more colourful here than in the grey(!) havens. Also, policemen speaking French is just disorienting – it sounds far too pleasant for them.

Je pas ne parle pas français

October 31, 2004

ALL SAINT’S DAY, well not quite here in Montreal, but it certainly is over there.

MONTREAL is awesome – autumn, or fall as I’m learning to call it, is far more colourful here than in the grey(!) havens. Also, policemen speaking French is just disorienting – it sounds far too pleasant for them.

Necessary Existence for anything you like

October 15, 2004

TERESA of Avila is the saint of the day.

This Noreena Hertz article in the Observer a little while ago whose point [that there are some debts that are so clearly illegitimate or unpayable, that countries should never be asked to honour them.] is made pithily.

A new taxonomy of philosophical positions.

An argument for the necessary existence of absolutely anything at all that exists. [at Prof. Timothy Williamson's website.]

Necessary Existence for anything you like

October 15, 2004

TERESA of Avila is the saint of the day.

This Noreena Hertz article in the Observer a little while ago whose point [that there are some debts that are so clearly illegitimate or unpayable, that countries should never be asked to honour them.] is made pithily.

A new taxonomy of philosophical positions.

An argument for the necessary existence of absolutely anything at all that exists. [at Prof. Timothy Williamson's website.]

Wangari Maathai

October 8, 2004

is the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004. Richly deserved.

Wangari Maathai

October 8, 2004

is the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004. Richly deserved.