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.. it is so quiet round here. LJ seems to be enjoying a sort of revival but haven't seen a corresponding surge of activity in DW. Of course maybe I have a limited view on what may happen here, as I don't have a very large list of 'subscribers' and 'subscribees', if I may use that expression, here, so it may be just that people in my DW list are not posting that much at the moment.
I've more or less given up on the idea that DW is for me a sort of back-up for LJ and that I'll revert completely to DW when LJ\s Russian masters become really nasty.. but haven't found exactly my voice in this, what I may want to say here that may be different to LJ.
In the meantime, what... have been reading a lot. Just finished 'Quantum' by Manjit Kumar,'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku, 'Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin Abbot and 'Voyages of the Beagle' by Charles Darwin... all in the form of eBooks. I finally am gathering courage, if courage it is, to pull out the iPad in the Tube and read a book and actually be reading rather than looking nervously around to see who may be about to snatch and run with the expensive toy, now that it is so much more normal to see people reading from iPads, Kindles and even the odd Galaxy Tab in the Tube. Also reading, this one on paper, 'El Chavismo como Problema' by Teodoro Petkoff, in what for me is a very interesting analysis of the Hugo Chavez phenomenon and his revolution in my native Venezuela -a scathing critique but from a left wing, socialist albeit not a fundamentalist leftie point of view.
I've more or less given up on the idea that DW is for me a sort of back-up for LJ and that I'll revert completely to DW when LJ\s Russian masters become really nasty.. but haven't found exactly my voice in this, what I may want to say here that may be different to LJ.
In the meantime, what... have been reading a lot. Just finished 'Quantum' by Manjit Kumar,'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku, 'Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin Abbot and 'Voyages of the Beagle' by Charles Darwin... all in the form of eBooks. I finally am gathering courage, if courage it is, to pull out the iPad in the Tube and read a book and actually be reading rather than looking nervously around to see who may be about to snatch and run with the expensive toy, now that it is so much more normal to see people reading from iPads, Kindles and even the odd Galaxy Tab in the Tube. Also reading, this one on paper, 'El Chavismo como Problema' by Teodoro Petkoff, in what for me is a very interesting analysis of the Hugo Chavez phenomenon and his revolution in my native Venezuela -a scathing critique but from a left wing, socialist albeit not a fundamentalist leftie point of view.
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