GnosisSpilling out over the side to anyone who will listen(Untitled)- October 29, 2003 Am I Ready To Leave Home I spent another evening tinkering with iBlog. If you're interested, you can watch my progress as I attempt to re-create Gnosis with another tool. I'm growing increasingly confident that I'll be able to do everything that I'd like with iBlog. If so, I'm planning to move Gnosis from the Salon Radio UserLand community. Some have left the Salon community, while continuing to use Radio, and others have left all together. It has been encouraging to see that they haven't..http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/29.html#a493 (Untitled)- October 28, 2003 iBlog, Do You Last night, as I was looking for a link to the .mac Backup application, I noticed that Apple is offering iBlog free to .mac members. I couldn't resist... After part of an evening's poking around, I'm impressed. It offers several advantages over Radio UserLand: It behaves much more like a native OS X application, without the somewhat cumbersome serverbrowser model. It has a nice, simple to use RSS reader built in. Unlike Radio, it's very easy to do the things that should be easy.http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/28.html#a492 (Untitled)- October 27, 2003 Of Drunkennesse From Essays After Montaigne Now drunkennesse amongst others, appeareth to mee a grose and brutish vice. The minde hath more part else where; and some vices there are, which (if it may lawfully be spoken) have a kinde of I wot not what generosity in them. Some there are, that have learning, diligence, valour, prudence, wit, cunning, dexterity, and subtlety joyned with them; whereas this is merely corporall, and terrestriall. And the grosest and rudest nation, that liveth amongst..http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/27.html#a491 (Untitled)- October 26, 2003 Is Panther All That I spent the whole day yesterday upgrading my and my wife's computers to Panther. My wife's upgrade, which I did as a simple upgrade, went quickly and smoothly. For mine, I backed up everything I could think of to CD-R, erased my hard drive, and did it as a clean install. The back-up took forever, and I forgot a few things, but the actual install was, of course, simple. The restoration of my data from the back-ups took the rest of the day (including a few tricks because I.http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/26.html#a490 (Untitled)- October 24, 2003 This Is All Very Clever, But Does It Actually Mean Anything First, I'm contemplating "refusing to participate" in the seemingly inevitable decay of our political economy. Then, I'm insisting that "we should be pursuing union with our origin." What's this, then Is my cyclothymia getting worse Are the poles of my moods developing into fully formed personalities I mean, which is it: withdrawal or unity Or am I instead embarked upon some esoteric intellectual exercise wherein I demonstrate...http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/24.html#a489 (Untitled)- October 23, 2003 Come On, Does Nineteen-Eighty Four Really Offer Any Insight Into Our World In his introduction to the newest edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thomas Pynchon rightly points out that "there is a game some critics like to play, worth maybe a minute and a half of diversion, in which one makes a list of what Orwell did and didn't 'get right.'" He's right that Orwell's ability "to see deeper than most of us into the human soul" is the greater achievement. And yet, I still feel the...http://morgannels.org/gnosis/2003/10/23.html#a488 |