Monthly Archives: January 2007

The root of the word happy is hap, also found in happenstance and haphazard; the original meaning is something like “chance” or “fortune”. To be happy, hence, is to be lucky.

There’s all kinds of sites that offer driving directions, but fairly few that give walking directions. Since when walking one often prefers to avoid multi-lane highways with no sidewalks, the two are not always isomorphic. (Of course, even if such … Continue reading →

clvrmnky reports that switching from Blogger Classic to New Blogger broke the RSS feed for the Nutshell. If the problem persists, then I’ll see about doing something about it. This is post #222 for me, which means headache, which means … Continue reading →

Just upgraded to the new version of Blogger, which presumably shouldn’t change much except that I know better. We’ll see how this goes. For those of you who live in Ontario, there’s a series of Citizen’s Assemblies regarding electoral reform … Continue reading →