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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Moral Excellence – Part III
Sometimes I imagine a web-designer’s nightmare. (I just imagine – I don’t really know what nightmares web designers have. I’m not a web designer, but I listen to them complain on the internet sometimes). You make the website. You follow … Continue reading
The internet has a koan for this
The internet has a koan for this. (Non-link-follower-summary: Initiative to create ‘one system to rule them all’ is a bad idea). From the BBC Article: The idea would enable a given app to work, for example, on a web-ready television, … Continue reading
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A logical fallacy
So often, we find ourselves talking about the Church… But not talking about Jesus. Witness(and read, it’s excellent) this article in the New Yorker (examining the Papal visit to Britain). Conventional wisdom holds that such respect is increasingly misplaced, and that … Continue reading
A fun job
Hidden Assumptions
Notice the combination of headline and summary in this BBC story… This innocent blurb says quite a lot: A defining factor in “right” or “wrong” is whether or not people do it. If it is natural, it is right – … Continue reading
Pride
Lawyers are incredible
Today I was looking up some law. And the law was awesome. It was written clearly, with no unnecessary words or phrases. Every bit of the text was meaningful. Nothing was repeated. No definitions were duplicated. Information was managed in … Continue reading
Shorpy
Just a quick link plug for a new link, Shorpy. I’ve known about this one for a while but I was recently reminded what a great site it is.
Sharpen the hammer
Remember folks, don’t drive yourself too hard… Take some time to sharpen the hammer.