On The Nonist:

“ It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing a beautiful woman, flying through the stratosphere or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.”
Malcolm Muggeridge

The trap of first rate pursuits

Another outstanding post from The Nonist. Food for thought.

My contribution to eEmadges:

Food for thought:

The Missing Peace

“ Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.”
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Laureate for Peace

Plato as Software Designer
Plato's Ideal Types helps explain not only how our minds work, but perhaps also how computer software should work.

The Big Here and Long Now
an essay by Brian Eno

On the Guardian: Aboriginal life expectancy

That's their land..or at least used to be.

I came across an interesting article:

• metadata-based website

" The intent of using a centralized metadata repository as the basis of navigation for a website is to separate business concepts from the content or functionality about those concepts. "

Then, in the news, a staggering scientific discovery:

• Researchers: starving won't make people live longer

Well, that's some advanced theory...

“..in those caverns of eternity which open into every soul and which are filled with rage and violence until the time comes when they may be stored with wisdom and love..”

“..this cannot be until there are no more fools, for until the last fool has grown wise wisdom will totter and freedom will still be invisible..”

From "The crock of gold" of James Stephens, poet and storyteller, born in Dublin in 1880.

Food for thought in times like these we are living in.

I am done moving but I still have no phone line so...I'm checking emails from public Internet places .

The spam has a way of getting in the way. On my computer I got all the message rules set up to move all known addresses to the respective folders and leave the spam in the inbox (the server that hosts my work web site doesn't allow me to set up anti spam filters) but from a public place I just have to go through each email and delete spam until I'm left with only the proper emails. A lenghty and boring process.

Hopefully I will get the phone line connected soon..

I got hit by one of those Credit Crad scams. Now, still waiting for the new card, my server shut me down...