Archive for February, 2004

Popper and postmodernism

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

A nice quote from Popper that reminds me of Rorty:
“By saying that some systems of laws can be improved, that some laws may be better than others, I rather imply that we can compare the existing normative laws (or social insitutions) with some standard norms which we have decided are worthy of being [...]

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Saturday, February 28th, 2004

A nice quote from Popper that reminds me of Rorty: “By saying that some systems of laws can be improved, that some laws may be better than others, I rather imply that we can compare the existing normative laws (or social insitutions) with some standard norms which we have decided are worthy of being realized” [...]

Surfing freshmeat…

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

jscalendar (a javascript pop-up calendar date selector) might be a cool thing to add in, as an option, to the next version of showlister. Lots of other good looking Linux stuff on freshmeat in the last few days: ApacheTop (like top, but just for Apache), Gambas (a Visual Basic-ish IDE), and amSyth (moog-ish software synth).

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Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

jscalendar (a javascript pop-up calendar date selector) might be a cool thing to add in, as an option, to the next version of showlister. Lots of other good looking Linux stuff on freshmeat in the last few days: ApacheTop (like top, but just for Apache), Gambas (a Visual Basic-ish IDE), and amSyth (moog-ish software synth).

Lessig on Greytuesday

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Lawrence Lessig on greytuesday. Check out the comments as well.

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

Lawrence Lessig on greytuesday. Check out the comments as well.

Bill Gates and “open” standards

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

Remember all that nonsense Bill Gates was talking back when .NET first came around and how it, by virtue of using XML-based file-formats, was supporting open standards? I submit to you, the Microsoft XML schema patent, which I discovered referenced on the AbiWord development mailing list archive. I quote Mr. Gates: “those [XML, SOAP, etc.] [...]

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Monday, February 23rd, 2004

Remember all that nonsense Bill Gates was talking back when .NET first came around and how it, by virtue of using XML-based file-formats, was supporting open standards? I submit to you, the Microsoft XML schema patent, which I discovered referenced on the AbiWord development mailing list archive.
I quote Mr. Gates: “those [XML, SOAP, etc.] are [...]

A few things to mention

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

I updated my reading list and made linked it under the writing section. I hope to add to the favorites section as time goes on.
Schwarzenegger thinks he should be able to run for president because he’s been a citizen since ‘83: “Look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger have made, . [...]

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Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

I updated my reading list and made linked it under the writing section. I hope to add to the favorites section as time goes on.
Schwarzenegger thinks he should be able to run for president because he’s been a citizen since ‘83: “Look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger have made, . [...]

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