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• Reminder: this blog has moved
  on Feb 1, 2016 in Blogger blogging blogroll blogs WordPress
  Just a reminder that this blog has moved to here.I only post stuff here when for some reason the Wordpress site is inaccessible.I moved the blog to Wordpress when the Blogger editor was downgraded and made more difficult to use, though the people at...
• 160 year-old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C. | Stumbling in the Shadows of Giants
  on Apr 27, 2015
  160 year-old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C. | Stumbling in the Shadows of Giants: –This summer a new Clerk of Court in Franklin County discovered a trove (an entire roomful) of documents, some dating back to 1840, in a p...
• Bright Saturday: a chaotic, exhausting, exhiliarating holy day
  on Apr 19, 2015 in Fr Athanasius Acunda Holy nCommunity of New Sion Kenya Monastery of the Descent of the Holy Spirit Orthodox mission Orthodox monasticism Orthodoxy South Africa
  Yesterday was Bright Saturday, probably better known to Western Christians as Easter Saturday, and it was the day we had arranged to have a farewell service for Fr Athanasius Akunda, who was returning to Kenya after 13 years in South Africa, and a ki...
• Xenophobia and load shedding
  on Apr 16, 2015 in immigrants immigration makwerekwere refugees violence xenophobia
  Perhaps it is no more than coincidence, but it struck me today that outbreaks of xenophobic violence seem to coincide with Eskom's load shedding.The last time there was serious and prolonged load shedding was in January 2008, and in February 2008 the...
• More Eostre nonsense from people who should know better
  on Apr 6, 2015 in Christian Easter Easter eggs Eostre fertility symbols Ishtar pagan Pascha
  I was rather surprised when a friend posted a link on Facebook to an article peddling the rather worn-out legends about Eostre and the pagan origins of Easter. Easter scuppers the certainties of modern fundamentalists:I regarded the pagan roots of Ea...
• on Apr 3, 2015 in books crime novels detective fiction police procedurals reading
  Dead Like You by Peter JamesMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThe trouble with reading these Roy Grace books out of order is that the baby keeps popping back into the womb, and in this case it is made more complicated by flashbacks to 12 years before, so keepin...
• Reviving this blog
  on Mar 27, 2015 in Blogger blogging blogging software blogs user experience WordPress
  When Blogger introduced a new user-hostile blog editor, I moved this blog to a WordPress site here: Notes from Underground.But now WordPress has introduced an even more user-hostile editor (which they call "an improved user expeience"). But it is ver...
• Row about Rhodes
  on Mar 27, 2015 in art business Cecil Rhodes destruction iconoclasm politics statue UCT vandalism
  Over the last few days I've seen a lot of comments on Twitter and elsewhere about the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Cape Town university, and some students demanding its removal.Removing statues seems to be quite a popular activity, at least in some circ...
• Blogger's new user-hostile interface and other atrocities
  on Jan 2, 2013 in Google+ Blogger blogging WordPress
  I din't think I would post again on this blog at this site, since I moved it to here.The main reason for moving was the new user-hostile user interface and reduced graphics functionality.But now something else has cropped up. I still have a family hi...
• This blog has moved
  on Sep 20, 2012
  This blog has moved to http://ondermynende.wordpress.com/The foisting of the new user-hostile Blogger interface on users was the last straw. In addition, it seems that a lot of the old functionality has been lost. Wordpress was always better for...

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