November 30th, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
An exciting day today with two resignations in the technical department…
November 27th, 2004 in Fire (Social) ·
Came across an interesting post by Ethan Zuckerman entitled What does Wikipedia want to be?..
November 23rd, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
I was impressed with the first episode of Go_Open. The presenter, John Vlismas if I remember the name, is, ‘funny’ according to the 18 year old sister of my partner…
November 19th, 2004 in Earth (Literature) ·
I’ve been following the Mail and Guardian’s entry into blogdom quite closely, and so far been quite disappointed. The functionality seems limited, anonymous readers can’t post, and, most importantly, there aren’t many contributions…
November 17th, 2004 in Earth (Literature) ·
I’ve been getting a surprising amount of referals looking for Sarah Johnson’s Personae. Of course, being far, far from an A-list blog, my hits are so low it could just be one person (or perhaps the author herself ) looking for information. Unfortunately I haven’t read the work yet, but I plan to soon…
November 14th, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
Doing some research for an upcoming Tectonic article, I came across some writings by Fabian Pascal and Christopher J…
November 10th, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
With Firefox 1 being released, there’s been a rush of sites displaying their browser statistics…
November 9th, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
Spotted an amusing snippet on Distrowatch. It appears South African Impi Linux fans were attempting to up their distro’s profile by calling their page on Distrowatch (which ranks distros by the number of times their page has been called) up to 10 times a second.
Read the full commentary here.
As Madonna said, no publicity is bad publicity, but I think there’re better ways guys!
November 8th, 2004 in Metal (Technical) ·
I always think of the peg when considering inventions I wish I’d thought of, but probably would never have, even though they are obvious now.
I used to ponder inventions much more as a child, or at least in the days when I didn’t have 3000 emails in my inbox demanding immediate attention…
November 6th, 2004 in Wood (Spiritual) ·
Everybody on earth knowing
that beauty is beautiful
makes ugliness
Everybody knowing
that goodness is good
makes wickedness
…
That’s why the wise soul
does without doing
teaches without talking
The things of this world
exist, they are;
you can’t refuse them
…
The above is from Ursula Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching…
