Friday September 23, 2005

Key choices

There are no wrong notes on the piano, just better choices.

Thelonious Monk

Monday August 1, 2005

The munchies

Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Kristian Wilson, Nintendo

In our likeness

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

Friday July 29, 2005

In the beginning

If a man…be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties

The Advancement of Learning (1605), Francis Bacon

Thursday July 28, 2005

Do not worry (too much) for Tomorrow

Our sun will rise on all of creation
On futures we forged with an ignorant bliss
Warmth kisses the soil and the soiled and the souls
Awakened. Made whole by desires we wished

Into being day moves from dawn to the noon
When the moon and the stars disappear from our mind
Appearing white fresh and quite clean are revealed
Scared eyes closed to real by the sweet dreams in Night

Debut scenes give fright as the sights are so new
The sky is so blue where so previously dark
Our gaussian views sharpen quickly in light
Reflecting the beams breathing life into life

So lifelike we’re shaken by stimulus strange
Left quite deranged by the birth of a day
We prayed for berating Almighty to make
Not knowing Tomorrow is mother to Fate

Saturday July 9, 2005

Prison of memory

Let us shut the door on the past
not in order to forget it
but in order not to allow it to imprison us

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Saturday July 2, 2005

Damned spammers!

My hosting company’s server was brought down mid-week, due to a barrage of spam comments. If that wasn’t bad enough, when i upgraded to Wordpress 1.5, my customised templates broke under the pressure (and are proving tricky to sort out), meaning that the redesign i was ‘going to get around to’ has been bumped up my to-do list. So, for a while - and for the first time - i’ma use a off-the-shelf theme.

There will be a very cramped, very hot space in hell reserved for all of these spamming mal-advertisers. I have decreed it…

Wednesday June 22, 2005

In this life at least

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Alfred de Musset

me: Attempting to attain it seems to be worthwile though.

Wednesday June 8, 2005

More than words

You want to be a painter? First of all you must cut out your tongue because your decision has taken away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

Matisse

Friday May 20, 2005

No difference

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

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Remainders

  • Ringing in changes in Nigeria A look at how mobile phones have changed Nigeria, and created jobs for the country’s youth, in the process. (378)
  • The year of magical thinking // a woman’s tale following the sudden death of her husband I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense,” CS Lewis wrote after the death of his wife. “It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought, feeling after feeling, action after action, had H for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an arrow to the string, then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead thought to H. I set out on one of them. But now there’s an impassable frontierpost across it. So many roads once; now so many cul de sacs. (263)
  • Good v. Good philosophical look at a ’simple’ word (524)
  • R.I.P. Audiogalaxy the history of the best p2p program ever (860)
  • The World’s ugliest dog i don’t get how a person could not be in constant mortal fear of this mutt! (358)

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