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He'd had the sense, moments earlier, that Caroline was on the verge of accusing him of being "depressed," and he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions. He would forfeit his moral certainties; every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease; he would never win an argument.

— Jonathan Franzen


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.

🦋 IAEA???

Weird ... I'm looking at my referrers log and there is at 3:08 this afternoon, a referral from www.iaea.org -- the home page of the International Atomic Energy Association. Why would they link to me? I surfed over there and did not see any link to READIN. Does anyone have a clue what this would mean? Is there a way to make your browser spoof web pages with the wrong referrer info? And if so what is the point of doing it?

Update: Mark Paschal writes in to let me know the IAEA referrer is an "abusive spider", and to point me to a discussion of it on Webmaster World. From what I can gather, the reason to report a false referrer URL is, to prevent sites from blocking spiders.

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Also, another blogroll link to me -- this one is from Tim Dunlop's excellent Road to Surfdom.

posted evening of Monday, June 30th, 2003

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