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Monthly Archive April, 2013

A Sunday Update in 2013!

There was one other personal post written on a Sunday since the start of the year, but that was strictly about a specific problem that I was unfortunately having at that exact time, so this would actually be the first “Sunday update” posted this year, although they were quite the norm last year. Of course, […]

Quick Review: Hawkwood and the Kings

It’s a good idea to have these two lumped in a single book, seeing as individually they’re short by high fantasy standards. Still, this reduced size is probably what makes the story somewhat fall apart at the seams at times, as the author is trying to cover too much action, and too much ground, in […]

Product Warranty in a Sustainable Economy

If we are to ever develop in a sustainable manner, one clear prerequisite is to move away from growth, and from planned obsolescence, and towards products that are truly built to last. This will obviously benefit the environment as well as the tremendous majority of people. Of course, a small number, those who always want […]

Green Warriors: Still 103 too Many…

As anyone interested should know by now, the Japanese whalers announced their worst result since the start of their annual “scientific” campaign, namely that they only managed to kill 103 minke whales out of their self-allocated quota of 935 minke, 50 fin and 50 humpback whales. Obviously, they blamed Sea Shepherd for this, which is […]

Another Protest, a Ban and a Sad Mistake

I’ll continue the series of short posts, which seem to become the rule lately, because I have some catching up to do and more events seem to be happening even now. Besides, if I’m to write any significant amount today, my story is waiting for me, seeing as I keep failing to achieve even my […]