31 March 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain — adults and wise persons never speak it.
— Mark Twain, “On the Decay of the Art of Lying“
31 March 2005 – 11:47 pm +0800
Work safe? Bù. (Mandarin for “no”.)
31 March 2005 – 8:30 pm +0800
I did a little reading today in preparation for my initial experiments with Linux. I’m trying not to spend too much time on it, because I learn much better by doing than by reading; but I am looking for gigantic red flags to avoid in my initial doings.
So today I read a little bit [...]
31 March 2005 – 12:27 pm +0800
Unlike the rest of this week’s designs, elegance and prettiness are not the order of the day here. Corkboard just looks like a corkboard, and does a pretty spiffy job of it.
Anyway, I think it’s neat, so you’re stuck looking at it for a day.
The design is by M. Blaze Miskulin.
31 March 2005 – 12:00 pm +0800
Craig Ceely (who has been blogging up a storm lately, after a long-ish absence) went and passed a meme along to me publicly several days ago, and I missed it! Sorry, Craig, hope this makes up for it.
(And, for the record, I don’t read my Fowler’s in the fashion of regular books, I dip [...]
31 March 2005 – 10:28 am +0800
Via email:
THE BONE CONDUCTION MUSIC SHOW will be moving time slots on WAAM, Talk Radio 1600 AM. STARTING Sunday April 10th we are moving to 1:00 pm to 5:00, Sunday afternoons. The Sunday four-hour show has been starting at 8:00 pm.
Again: NEW AND IMPROVED TIME SLOT FOR THE COOLEST RADIO SHOW [...]
30 March 2005 – 11:57 pm +0800
It is fascinating to hear teachers say that having to “teach to the test” reduces their ability to engage in good teaching. What they call “good teaching” is the very reason our students do so badly in international comparisons and why colleges have to have large numbers of remedial courses to teach students what they [...]
30 March 2005 – 11:51 pm +0800
Work safe? Well… ummmm…. y’see… it’s… uhhhhh… yeah, it is. Pretty much.
30 March 2005 – 11:09 pm +0800
Banana Oil!’s Site Meter rolled over the 50,000 mark at 10:54 p.m. (GMT + 8.00). While we had over 16,000 unique visitors in the 10 months of blogging prior to that point, we’re not counting those (though, if you’ll notice, we are mentioning them).
Visitor number 50,000 surfed in from France on a Google Image [...]
30 March 2005 – 10:24 pm +0800
I’ve gone and sent off an order for Linux, but how could I not? EasyLinuxCDs has an outstanding deal—12 Linux OSes on 26 CDs for $29.95. Here’s what you get with the standard package:
Mandrake 10.1 Official
SuSE 9.2 KDE Live Eval
Debian Linux 3.0 R3
Fedora Core 3
Knoppix 3.7
Ubuntu Linux 4.10
Slackware Linux 10
FreeBSD 5.3 (2CD)
Linspire Live [...]
30 March 2005 – 1:45 pm +0800
Today, a too-cool-for-school Frog- French-designed theme, Devenir En Gris, courtesy one M. Frederic de Villamil, AKA neuro.
It’s simple, it’s elegant, it’s dark, and it’s three columns, which ought to make regular readers here nostalgic for Banana Oil!’s pre-WP 1.5 designs.
(If I wanted to make it a permanent design, I would [...]
30 March 2005 – 12:21 pm +0800
A month and a half ago Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association and Dean of Library Services, Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, descended from the Ivory Tower—or possibly even Heaven itself—to deliver unto the unwashed masses his opinions of the “Blog People” (þThe Eternal Golden Braid):
A blog is a species of interactive [...]
30 March 2005 – 10:30 am +0800
Regarding my post on file sharing and taking security precautions, Don Singleton writes:
I disagree with Banana Oil. One would have to be very greedy to download everything they can regardless of copyright restrictions to devote an entire hard drive to it, and to encrypt all personal data is a lot of extra work.
Perhaps I didn’t [...]
29 March 2005 – 11:56 pm +0800
It was a work of genius. There was no question about that. But there was some strange insanity here, an improbable contradiction, that he could not quite put his finger on. It was as if… as if… as if Volyavo had been part of the musical mainstream about the time of Brahms, learned a few [...]
29 March 2005 – 11:49 pm +0800
Work safe? The politically correct term is “sartorially challenged”.