Tweet Tweet

If you look in the side bar of this site you will find a widget called “What am I doing?”. In this my twitter updates show up. But what is Twitter you might think. Well, it’s something called micro blogging, but that is really a term that makes about as much sense as the later Nietzsche… [...]

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Editors

You apparentley can’t underestimate the importance of a good editor…

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
~Adlai E. Stevenson
Thobias

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Book convention ‘08

As previously stated, I attended the Book- & Library con in Gothenburg this Thursday. I thought I’d recount some of that experience here for the benefit of the ‘scryers’ of the TwilightShadows.
Staying the night with two girls…
The trip was paid for by the department I attend, the Department for Culture Studies, but of course we [...]

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September Update

So, I thought maybe it was time for a general update of things. As you might have seen I recently went pro on Flickr and updated for the entire summer. Sorry about that, but my internet connection over the summer was really sucky…
In other news: I am attending the Book and Library con in Gothenburg [...]

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Autumnal Art

I will start by publishing a very short piece I started to write one Halloween, or so I think, just after I’d made a Jack-O-Lantern. It was originally meant to be a real short story, but ended up some sort of poem instead. I originally called it ‘The Cutting of Jack‘, but decided to rename [...]

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Count words in TextWrangler

I tend to write my texts, at least for blogging, in a text editor and then cut & paste them into where ever. The editor I tend to use nowadays is TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software. Why? Well, I find that a text editor lets me focus on the task at hand much better than [...]

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‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’

Reading the excellent web design page by Mark Boulton I came across a fascinating video called ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’. 
 
“Watching Job draw the letterforms is mesmeric enough, but when his son (?) joins in, I found myself laughing as he tries to imitate his fathers work. This leads to some funny-looking characters (c and d are particular favourites [...]

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Why are Smileys not in the history books?

I recently began a course in the history of handwritten texts, and I must say it has made me think a lot about communication.
Throughout history we are inclined to think that we as a race have evolved into more and more advanced creatures, which in turn has led to more and more advanced communication. We [...]

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Who can be a druid?

Recently I found my self at a party in the north (well, Småland…) and after a while the subject turned to the meaning of the word druid. What does it mean to be a druid? Who decides who can call him/her self a druid? Does the word druid mean anything if it means different things [...]

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A few updates

As you may have noted by now, I’ve been tinkering with the visuals of the site. Well, those things I can do with a free account. Anyway, I’ve added some endorsements, some links and a credits space. Just so you can check out stuff I like.
There is also the new TwilightShadows wiki at zoho.com, which [...]

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