@japchap It just struck me that the view, even from bed, was really rather fine this morning.

Reply All almost lost me again today. Two strikes, but the count goes down when they do what I consider good stuff.

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Another fine autumn day beckons here in the Eternal City. I suppose I'd better get going.

Where, I am told, tour guides to Cook County Cemetery point out the people who won JFK the presidency. But maybe that's apocryphal too.

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No idea. There aren't many very close to here, but I suppose a really big one might affect us. After Amatrice there were reports of apartments in northern Rome being damaged.

Two earthquakes about 100km from here, a 5.5 a couple of hours ago and a 6.0 20 mins ago. Not hearing much about damage yet.

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None, at the moment. But in the past there were plenty.

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That it has neglected software -- which made it insanely great -- in favour of technology, which was only ever as good as the software it ran.

I think.

"It's a curiosity of history that all these revolutionary dictators, from Lenin to Steve Jobs, invariably have bourgeois, stodgy taste in music. Lenin played some schmaltzy folk song by Glinka."

Another ace presentation from Maclej [static.pinboard.in]