November 28th, 2006 in Metal (Technical) ·
About a month ago I first installed Kubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) on one of my home office machines…
November 22nd, 2006 in Metal (Technical) ·
I know blogging can be a fairly narcissistic activity, but the lack of comments in the past few weeks on my posts was starting to puzzle me.
Not enough to investigate further though – I just assumed I’d been relegated from the E list to the F list of bloggers…
November 18th, 2006 in Earth (Literature) ·
After missing out so often, I made sure to attend some of the films showing at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival (otherwise known as Sithengi).
I’ve seen four films so far, two shorts, and two feature films…
November 11th, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
There’s a zen koan I’m fond (perhaps a little too fond) of quoting, which goes something like:
A zen master holds up two white chess pawns, and asks whether they’re the same or different.
If you answer the same, you’re wrong, and get hit with the zen master’s stick, and if you answer different, you’re also wrong, and get hit!
I’ve thought about this particular koan quite a lot, and my understanding of it has changed over time…
November 8th, 2006 in Water (Personal) ·
Perspective is powerful phenomonen, which is why being aware enough to choose your perspective is powerful.
I was reminded of that this week reading the responses to PW Botha’s death…
