Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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She abjures blog explosion

At last I put off blog ranking,For twice ten weeksThe daysman of my thought,And hope, and doing;Being ashamed thereof,And faint of seeksAnd minutes viewing, wroughtIn its pursuing.*

*With apologies to

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January 31st, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Metablogging | 3 comments

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Where’s the “any” key?

Back to work. Dressed for an arctic expedition, ready for the sub-zero temperature of my office. R2OB1 is sitting opposite me swathed in her scarf and pashmina, going for the Peruvian Sherpa look.
Power onBEEPKeyboard failurePress F1 to continue

doh!

Maybe I just need some

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January 31st, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Miscellanea | Leave a comment

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Make Poverty History

Fighting chronic compassion fatigueI can already hear the groaning through the modems, “Not another campaign for Africa!”, “We’ve already done Africa!” or even “Why bother?” Fair question when you consider that despite continuous aid, life in African countries is getting worse. Is there a hole in the bucket? Nope. The first problem is debt relief. At

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January 28th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Politricks | Leave a comment

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Snow and Mosquitoes??

Imagine the scene. A small child sleeping fitfully under crumpled bedclothes. Silence. Zoom in to a head shot. High-pitched whine fades in and out. Child listlessly swats the air without waking. Another high-pitched whine, which stops abruptly. Pull back. Silence. Zoom in for close head shot to see a mosquito feeding on the child’s cheek.

Woke up

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January 27th, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Photos, Politricks, Roma o morta | 2 comments

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  • Mathieu
    January 27, 2005 at 7:51 pm · Reply

    Hi Ria!

    Never having lived in Malarial areas more than a week at a time, my pet peeve about mosquitoes has to be the little whine in the dead of the night.

    Drives … ME … NUTS!

    Ahem

  • Curt
    January 27, 2005 at 2:41 pm · Reply

    Ria… thank you so much for this information-rich post on mosquitos. I love this stuff. You write beautifully, your site is gorgeous, and your illustration is phenomenal! So glad to have run into you. I’ll read you often. Blogmarked and blogrolled. :)

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And you think YOU’VE got no one to talk to?

I attended a ceremony this morning with five language simultaneous interpreting. It was fun switching from one language to another, although I missed the punchline to the only joke of the day because I was on the Mandarin channel. I wonder if the interpreters are chosen for the quality of their voice – all five this

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January 25th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Miscellanea | 2 comments

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  • Ria
    January 26, 2005 at 10:13 am · Reply

    It’s true that “next blog” does show more than the monolingualism on blogexplosion and blogclicker. I particularly enjoy the Filipino and Singaporean blogs with their mix of English/Tagalog and English/Mandarin.

  • Mathieu
    January 25, 2005 at 7:07 pm · Reply

    That’s one of the things I like about the “next blog” button in blogspot.

    They take you to sites of ANY language, and there’s a lot of spanish, portugese, and asian languages. Some french, some german, some scandinavian languages.

    Sometimes I can understand them, sometimes I babelfish them (it’s usually quite funny, but not very enlightening), and most times, I have no clue.

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