{"id":466,"date":"2005-01-03T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=466"},"modified":"2005-12-05T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T19:17:18","slug":"what-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-goes-on","title":{"rendered":"What Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice article by Niall Ferguson about the historical precedent to today’s Russia<\/a>. Check it out.<\/p>\n

The site was down for about 12 hours on Monday. Evidently, my web-host was doing some sorta New Year’s updating of the hardware, and it All Went Awry. Sorry if you didn’t get your expected dose of Virtual Memories.<\/p>\n

Not that there’s a ton to write about. My girl & I spent New Year’s day down in Princeton, where we met an old friend of mine for lunch. Then it was back home to watch the third installment of that Lord of the Rings<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the heck out of the movies, but it sorta bummed me out that, when you get down to it, evil only loses by accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice article by Niall Ferguson about the historical precedent to today’s Russia. Check it out. The site was down for about 12 hours on Monday. Evidently, my web-host was doing some sorta New Year’s updating of the hardware, and it All Went Awry. Sorry if you didn’t get your expected dose of Virtual Memories. Not … <\/p>\n

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