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Hill and Dale and…Cliff

Volume 6, Issue 116; 19 Nov 2003

Telekinetics, not.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

Neil Gaiman

Shuffling bits from here to there is an interesting technical problem. Bit pushing I can often manage.

Physically abusing a machine with an iffy power supply from 6000 miles away I can’t manage. So http://norman.walsh.name/ is down.

Uh. Was down. You won’t be reading this until it’s up again.

Sigh.