The Happy Moron

If you go to dictionary.com or some other fancy site, they’re liable to tell you that meta comes from Greek and means ‘beside’, or something like that.
If you surf the web you’ll generally gather the impression that attaching meta to a word applies that word to itself: metadata refers to data about data, metadiscussion refers [...]

I lifted this link from the freakonomics blog
A court ruled that California parents will require government certification in order to homeschool – stating that they don’t have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120614130694756089.html
 Teaching your own children? Shocking!

Repentance is interesting to me because it’s so hard. Easy things generally aren’t interesting because there’s very little to learn from them. The benefits and consequences of an easy action are usually well known and well understood – people just try it and see what happens.
Bear in mind that I’m talking about *ease*. It’s important to [...]

Mangers and business people have an intense fascination with measuring things. This often is accompanied by a terrible fear of things that cannot be measured. The thinking goes that if you cannot measure something, then you can’t manage it; you can’t control it.
More importantly, if you can’t measure something, you can’t prove to your boss [...]

Christ is risen!

God loves you.
Peace be with you.

I stay behind the times on everything. It works for me; I like it. This extends beyond avoiding early adoption – it extends to avoiding *mainstream* adoption.
The Happy Moron is a prime example. 2008 is a late year to start blogging. I could have been swaying people’s opinions for the past five years or more!!
But [...]

Because if you do, it’s going to hurt a lot more than it used to. Kristen may have made some poor choices, but she never intended for her life story to be paraded before the nation.
Saying, “My information is safe because no one cares about little old me” really isn’t a very good privacy policy. [...]

So, once again the Edmonton Oilers are putting together their annual gala spectacle – the famous playoff run.
It’s the time of year when one morning, Oilers GM Kevin Lowe wakes up at 3am, in a cold sweat,
“Honey! I just had a horrible nightmare that we’re about to miss the playoffs!”
“I’ve got some bad news for [...]

I expect that there are a great many people who start blogs and are disappointed when their blogs never generate much interest on the general internet.
It’s not surprising. Blogs have immense potential, and the power of personal publishing to a global audience is not to be underestimated. Given the grand scale of what an arbitrary [...]