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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, February 23, 2026

Prince Harry's memoirs are in the news again

Prince Harry's memoirs are in the news again, because of a brief reference to his Uncle Andrew, who he largely ignores in the book. What's striking about this entire book is how truly bizarre the lives of the Royals are, totally controlled by Public Relations and family hierarchy. I suppose one could see them as Britain's Cheerleaders-in-Chief, these days, if nothing else. That's why Andrew's legal problems might be the end of them, at last, this time. As Donald Trump is proving a critical embarassment to the US, because of his moral failings and incompetence, so Prince Andrew is proving to be a critical embarassment to the Royal Family, making people wonder what function, if any, they really serve in Britain, now. If it really becomes clear that they have no function at all, that their considerable cost clearly outways any benefits they provide to Britain, or the world, it seems actually possible, now, that they may simply be dismissed from the world stage, as an obsolete, thoroughly antiquated medieval adjunct to government, that Britain could do much better, without. We'll have to see if Prince Andrew actually does go to prison, finally. It might be very difficult to maintain the Royal Family, at all, with the brother of the King serving years in prison for gross misconduct on many levels. What are they for, exactly? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/prince-harry-wrote-uncle-andrew-193835194.html

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