Monthly Archives: October 2006
Processing photos, drinking Orange Pekoe and listening to… Read more
Discardia
Metagrrrl has gone and created a whole new holiday for Unnecessary Things; Discardia! Discardia is a floating holiday to celebrate letting go… The exact days vary. It takes place in the time between the Solstices & Equinoxes and their following new moons. Sometimes it’s short and sometimes it’s long. Discardia is celebrated by getting rid of stuff and ideas you no longer need. It’s about letting go, abdicating from obligation and guilt, being true to the self you are now. Discardia is the time to get rid of things that no longer add value to your life, shed bad habits, let go of emotional baggage and generally lighten your load. What a fantastic idea. I’m… Read more
Working on Movable Type code, drinking Orange Pekoe and planning my next photo… Read more
What’s Stopping Linux On The Desktop?
In an article entitled The Linux Desktop Myth, A. Y. Siu asks “What’s stopping Linux from being more high profile, being more widely adopted?” The in-depth exploration of possible answers ( or facets of the answer) is well-written, and worth a read even if you don’t agree with the… Read more
Where is the support?
Dermot Tynan asks why Sony or Dell has not stepped up and offered true Linux support on any product, ever. Good… Read more
On Rome
It is fashionable, and has been for some time now, to speak of the glories of Rome. I think it is worth remembering exactly what it is we are enumerating and celebrating by doing so. We are speaking of the things that comprised Rome, that allowed it to become a world (conquering) power: armies, roads, laws, officials, bureaucrats… No one speaks of Roman philosophy, because they had… Read more
MTSocialize Updated for Movable Type 3.3
My Movable Type plugin, MTSocialize has been (finally) updated to version 0.5, which should work with Movable Type versions 3.3+. It should now also be possible to install via Plugin Manager I apologize for how long it has taken me to get this version rolled out, but I didn’t update to 3.3 in order to test it until just this week. Now I begin the work to bring MTSocialize up to full version 1.0. Stay… Read more
Alec Eiffel Rides Again
Trompe le Monde wasn’t the end! The Pixies are going back in the studio if they “can persuade Kim (Deal, bassist) to come out of her… Read more
Photography Update
I have been adding some of my backlog of photos to the new galleries so that they don’t look quite so bare. Go take a… Read more
Anyone Care To Defend Egoism?
Would someone who agrees with something (anything?) that Ayn Rand has written please use the comments below to answer a question I have concerning egotism: How can one espouse any sort of egoism, philosophical, ‘rational’ or otherwise, as a positive worldview and also maintain an affinity for any community – particularly one not formed or joined out of ‘rational self-interest’, such as a family, country, race, class or disposition? It also seems to me that, if one is to be consistent, no one who claims allegiance to ‘egoism’ can then respect any ‘natural ligatures’ as Stirner would call them that, through their very being create “morality” – as understood in an egoist dialectic to be defined as duty to another, that antithesis to self-interest. So then, anyone who professes any allegiance of a familial, national or racial type cannot, by the very definition of egoism, be considered an egoist, because even if we always (intentionally) do what we want to do, this only shows… Read more