Author: Elaine

Seabiscuit

I saw Seabiscuit with friends yesterday, and loved it. “Equidaily Racing Journal”:http://www.equidaily.com/sbiscuit.html has pointers to articles all over the web. A “Washington Post article”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A54773-2003Jul28&notFound=true talks about Laura Hillenbrand, the author of the book. An “SFGate article”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/26/SP253593.DTL discusses how Seabiscuit ranks among racing greats such as Man of War and Secretariat. The New York Times has an “archive”:http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/25SEABISCUIT-REF.html of Seabiscuit stories, including the article proclaiming his victory over War Admiral.

Paladin of Souls

The only author I currently buy in hardcover, Lois McMaster Bujold, has a forthcoming book called Paladin of Souls, to be published on September 23. The first chapter has been published on line at Souls. Additional chapters will be added each week.

Lily

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I am riding Lily in her Western saddle. Someone else was using her favorite pad, so I decided to see if I still remembered how to girth up this saddle. Lily was not very cooperative while we tried to take this photo. Usually, she stands quietly, but she started fidgeting as soon as my trainer pointed the camera at us.

Late summer garden

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My petunias and alyssum are doing very well. I’ve been surprised at how well the alyssum has grown: the plants were tiny when I bought them.

In Filters that Fight Back,

In Filters that Fight Back, Paul Graham suggests

One intriguing idea is to literally fight back: to make filters disable spammers’ servers by automatically following all the links in each incoming email. We may be driven to this in order to achieve accurate filtering anyway. Why wait?

And the battle continues.