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02:18:44 pm on September 17, 2008 |
i quit! the woman is FREE! Lord almighty, the woman is free!!!!
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11:00:38 am on September 16, 2008 |
cvj: hahaha. no politics! ok. no more.
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05:30:11 pm on September 12, 2008 |
Malaysia’s top anti-government blogger arrested under law allowing detention without trial
By SEAN YOONG | Associated Press Writer
3:26 AM CDT, September 12, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) _ Police arrested Malaysia’s top anti-government blogger Friday under a law allowing indefinite detention without trial in a move likely to face public reproach.
I felt sad that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.
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08:51:22 am on September 12, 2008 |
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01:43:41 pm on September 10, 2008 |
re:LHC – coolness. we finally get to touch the face of God.
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01:32:37 pm on September 9, 2008 |
ah, but the trinity that flew the chopper wasn’t exactly human. she was a computer program that bore likeness of the flesh-and-blood trinity. and besides, in Stanford, once the human expertise was transferred to one computer, its a pretty short step for that computer to pass on the same expertise to another computer. or a thousand other computers.
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03:57:57 pm on September 8, 2008 |
The Matrix is coming …
Remember how in the first Matrix, Trinity downloaded a program into her brain that taught her how to fly a helicopter? Well, they’ve done that already.
In 10 minutes, a computer algorithm developed by Stanford University scientists learned, and then flawlessly replicated, more than 20 years of radio-controlled helicopter expertise.
Ok, so it isn’t Trinity just yet, but like the four-minute mile, this breaks a psychological barrier. Now we know for a fact that computers can be made to learn; the future is now just a matter of time.
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11:51:32 pm on September 7, 2008 |
“For the crown you’ve placed upon my head / feels so heavy now / and I don’t know what to say to you / but I smile anyhow // and all the time I’m thinking … i want to be a hunter again”
Dido sang that, and it was running through my head all night as we stared alternately into the distance and into each other’s blank eyes.
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10:13:23 pm on September 7, 2008 |
chuck! you have got to tell us more about HBDI. SOunds fun. And we get a free training course besides! LOL! Oh, and say hi to J.
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09:40:56 pm on September 7, 2008 |
Lurve the beach!!!
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09:20:40 pm on September 7, 2008 |
Welcome, J!
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08:15:04 pm on September 7, 2008 |
hehe. i never thought of it that way, chuck!
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12:14:32 am on September 4, 2008 |
Becks got busted!
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05:32:44 pm on September 3, 2008 |
how to get a wordpress account?
1. Go to http://www.wordpress.com and you’ll see a welcome screen. Find the big blue sign-up button!
2. When you’ve done that, you’re going to have to come up with a username, password, and other such things. The screen will show empty fields that you can fill up.
Now, you can choose to get your own blog. But if you’re not ready for that sort of committment (who is, right? LOL), select “Just a username please.”
Be careful about the email address you give. Make sure it works, basically.
When you’re done filling up the fields, click the ‘Next’ button.
After that, it’s really just a matter of following instructions and seeing the process through to the end.
3. Enjoy your new username, send me an e-mail telling me that you want to join, and you’re ready to post!
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04:32:14 pm on September 3, 2008 |
Don’t get me wrong. I think Filipino Voices is rocking, and I will keep on posting there too. But there are just some things that don’t fit in that arena.
“FilipinoVoices.com is a collaborative blog of Filipino bloggers. Focusing on politics and society, especially in areas of human rights and civil rights.”
See what I mean? Filipinos don’t just talk about politics and society (at least not the kind of ’society’ implied by having the word tagged on to ‘politics,’ if you catch my drift). We talk about food too, and concerts, and gadgets and our lives.
One could argue that that’s what personal blogs are for. True enough. But FV does something else besides aggregating political blog posts: it gives people who don’t otherwise blog the opportunity to be heard in the blogosphere. Take benign0 for instance. Sure he had a website, but that’s not exactly a blog, and he mostly just commented on other people’s blogs. Being on FV has made a blogger out of him, and now people comment on his posts as well. The same is true of Bencard. And I’m sure even cvj watches movies from time to time.
Given my recent fey mood, I got it into my head that it’d be nice to have a blog that lets other people be bloggers as well – without making them feel that they need to write about politics. Hence, this blog.
Of course, those who already blog will be welcome, and maybe this can be like a more expansive kind of Twitter for them; or as Forrester would have put it (in that movie Finding Forrester?) “Blogging is the main course. This is dessert.” Or even maybe something like a break from ’serious’ blogging – kinda like ‘The Road to Gandolfo‘ was for Robert Ludlum.
BTW, the name speed blogging comes from ‘speed dating‘ – which basically involves a girl and a guy ‘dating’ for about five minutes before moving on to another partner, all within the same venue. The idea is to get as wide a sampling as possible of what’s available, and then to decide which ones have potential. In the same way, the mini-posts on this blog will allow you to sample what the various authors (assuming other people decide to join this little kibbutz of mine) have to offer the reader. Naturally, the mini-posts can also be conversations between and among authors.
So, if you want to join, get a wordpress account, then send me your email address. Just fire-off an e-mail to romsedona(at)yahoo(dot)com, tell me what you want your username and password to be, and I’ll hook you up.
