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Date: 10 December 2002 13:19:00
Some people may know that I work for Edinburgh University. People will also know that over the weekend there was a devastating fire in the centre of Edinburgh. Thankfully, there were no injuries. Sadly, the library of the Department of Artificial Intelligence has been destroyed. Since Edinburgh University has been involved in AI for pretty well as long as the science has existed, one can only imagine what historic documents have been lost.
The fire has not affected me personally. The University has several sites in Edinburgh, and where I work is a couple of miles or so from the centre.
Our traumas over the week-end have rather concerned second born, who was running a high temperature for a couple of days. We've learnt that at least one child in his room at nursery was taken to hospital with similar symptoms. We tried taking him to nursery as normal this morning, but he was reluctant. Later in the morning, however, he was keen to be out and about, so I took him to nursery, and proceeded into work.