Aung San Suu Kyi was interviewed on a contraband camera Partial transcript - read below to find what Aung San is asking us to do (transcribed from the video): [Question about her willingness to talk to a brutal and oppressive regime] "You have to talk to people if you
I'm doing some work (a very little work) with the AloNovo project, which is basically a site to help consumers find socially responsible companies to shop with. Here's my first post on taking responsibility as an accidental shareholder in these beasts: We the Corporations
Just finished the old Jack Finney Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (had to read it because of the title, I have a theory about corporations being subject to real-life bodysnatching ;-). Good read, convincing characters, plot ok - and I love the moral : yeah its hopeless but that's exactly
what is the world coming to? Broken links on an Apache.org site - to the latest source tarball for the apache httpd server, no less http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22 ah well - its Thanksgiving ( but that should only affect the US... )
I'm wide awake now, looking down at mountains poking up out of a rippling sea of clounds, side-lit by the dawn. In a plane, not on a mountaintop, but still striking. The problem is as always: how to spend the moments of time. Deciding on each one is
The problem with life is, the predators have most time to plan their next move. Non-predators have to spend more time just gathering and eating. Seems to be true of business predators as well...
I could be better at paying bills, cooking, and cleaning the house. Especially cleaning. But who wants to be the world's best dishwasher? Or Java coder? Really - I am deeply into best practices, and while coding is significantly more satisfying than washing dishes (at least you are
Terrified that I'll forget, or make a mistake, or that something bad will happen. How can I live free from fear if I'm afraid of myself? I don't want to make my kids this way either - responsible yes, but afraid no. Is the
Can it be that simple? But what about dishes, feeding the fish, deadlines, svn commits and never, never making a serious mistake? Just write? That's not all Laraine Herring said in Writing Warrior - a book I stole 10 minutes to read in Antigone Books while my 5
I just added the WP Hide Post plugin - not that I have anything to hide, but most days my thoughts and musings don't quite rate front-page visibility. Or, perhaps its just easier to put them down in type when I'm not imagining them plastered that