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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Building a Library

15-Sep-05

I keep a digital library of web articles I’ve found helpful, eBooks and other helpful information in PDF or HTML format on my computer. The information I’ve collected ranges from Buddhism to Psychology to any number of programming topics, including Ruby on Rails.
I’d love something like iTunes for digital files - __iDocs__ or something like […]

Work in Progress

14-Sep-05

I’m currently working [on a post for this blog][post] that I didn’t just write in one sitting. That’s not my usual method of writing; normally I just spew forth whatever’s sufficiently formed in my brain to become a coherent and intelligent bit of writing. (There have, of course, been failed attempts, and a few of […]

Mind-bending movie mixes, take I

14-Sep-05

Though I’d seen [Lost in Translation][1] before, I rented it again from Netflix because I love the sense of “being” it portrays… Cast adrift in a sea of humanity they don’t quite understand (how many of us _do_ understand?), Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannsen (swoon) build a friendship out of the silly little things people […]

and another thing…

11-Sep-05

A note to government at all levels: You _cannot_ paint yourselves the protectors of the people, the defenders of the faith, the guardians of homeland security and yet _disavow that very responsibility_ when you and your colleagues fail in your collective duties.
You currently scramble to save yourselves from the brunt of an angry popular response […]

Civilisation and its Malcontents

11-Sep-05

It appears the [lowest depths of conduct][1] in the Katrina disaster came not from the tens of thousands of stranded New Orleans citizens and visitors, but instead from the people who claim to be our saviours and tell _us_ that we cannot be trusted to survive without their protection and control: the city, state and […]