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Friday, February 07, 2003
Cut-the-knot. I was just about to blog how great this site is for us math lovers, when I refreshed and saw this: During the early hours of Friday, Feb 7 a math lover from Germany began downloading this site to a private computer. The assault lasted nearly two hours during which time the host server got clogged down unable to serve other clients. As a result, this site has been served a TOS - termination of service - notice. I am in the process of looking for the next host. This is a pain in the neck, an unnecessary expense and a waste of time that might have been avoided if the fellow had a modicum of conscience. Please avoid the bulk downloading of the site. Read the Terms of use agreement. Mention it to your friends. The bulk downloading is immoral, illegal, and costly. Thank you.Gee, thanks... :-(
I have been becoming increasingly interested in mathematics and number theory, reading a number of expensive recreational math books. I suppose I should start learning from the masters. Euclid's Elements. Thursday, February 06, 2003
I had this to say in response to an old D-squared article on Bush's plan for dividend taxation. Just make corporate dividends tax-exempt (an expense). Besides making it simpler for the average tax-paying share-holding American, it also emasculate the regressiveness argument. It would encourage corporate dividends for shareholders - the whole purpose for owning stock in the first place, and would hopefully have a stabilizing effect on the securities market.
Okay, I added comments for some reason. Not sure what the impact will be on load times, but it seems awful darn slow. It could be too much java from too many free utility sites. Each step I take with blogger drives me toward movable type and my own space.
Answers to, "So why does my crap not work," and "How do I do this to my blog*spot blog?"
Blogger FAQ blog.
From the BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis Let's get this straight: Sex sells. Sex is fun. Sex is good.Try getting this straight. If you need to get off by watching other people have sex, then you're a pervert. Wednesday, February 05, 2003
In a scathing review of The Hours, calling it an "Apologia for Evil," Rod Dreher has this to say, It's superficial to think that happiness comes easy; some people have everything, and yet are still estranged from themselves. It's even more superficial, though, to think the point of life is to find personal happiness. Most people outgrow that egotistical worldview after their teenage years, and come to understand that the task is to live a meaningful life, if not a happy one. A meaningful life is to be found in love, in living nobly and selflessly in the service of something or someone greater than oneself: God, family, friends, country, humanity, or some combination thereof. The secret to happiness is paradoxical: You find it most truly and deeply through loving others more than you love yourself.This sounds similar to King Solomon's words in Ecclesiastes 9:9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. Tuesday, February 04, 2003
More beautiful prose from James Lileks. This is real snow, too - the kind that crunches as though you’re walking on apple slices, the kind that packs well for snowballs and snowmen, the kind that smothers trees and bends the boughs low. It’s a binary world now, black and white. It makes driving more difficult, it requires shoveling, it gets in your boots and and tracks into the house, but damn: it’s beautiful.
More on the blogging trend. Forum: How blogging changed journalism -- almost. Chris Mooney examines how Weblogs have altered the balance of power in media and created ripples through society... All of which suggests the complementary, rather than alternative, role of blogging with respect to mainstream media. The central virtue of blogging, I've decided, is that in the proverbial agora, or online marketplace of ideas, bloggers are like Socrates on speed.... They're constantly interrogating arguments and points of view, noting flaws, advancing more sound positions, and shifting the focus to new questions. The mainstream media are being watched more closely because of bloggers -- and kept more honest -- and that can't be a bad thing.
It's good to see some insightful comments from our friends at CalPundit. In discussing the Kasparov - Deep Junior chess match, he shows an brilliant command of mathematics. The match score is now 2-2 and game five looks to be the key game of the match: Kasparov will be playing white, and it's probably his last chance for a win. If he plays agressively and wins the game, the final match score will probably end up 3.5-2.5. But if he's just trying to avoid a loss, he'll play carefully and end up with a couple of draws, for a final match score of 3-3.
My wife got to visit President Bush at the White House on Friday. She left me with babysitting duties. Her mother is heavily involved with the RNC, so that's how she got to go. I'll post her "official" photo when it arrives.
Matrix cartoons... errr... animation! The Animatrix. Upon further examination, they are just showing previews of the upcoming DVD. But Square (of the Final Fantasy movie fame) is doing one of the shorts.
Michael Moore was right; we are a violent nation. However, we're darn funny, too. Watch Reebok's Terry Tate movies. The Pain Train is coming! |
