I’ve been on Twitter since January 2008, follow 114 people, have sent out 924 tweets, and have 10 “followers” who probably never follow a word of my tweets. Most of the people I know in real life don’t use Twitter, and I discourage followers from the Twitterverse by not following them back. A few months …
CNN has an article entitled “The Internet and the ‘End of Privacy’” which has some interesting facts, raising interesting points, but does not really go to the bottom of the issue. Louis Gray has an article that shows how transparency works to his benefit. It struck me that the persons who stand to gain most …
I’ve gone back to Facebook for a while to learn about some of the changes happening there, and have just been reading an article by Jesse Stay about new possibilities regarding Facebook lists. Facebook lists are interesting, and, like Twitter lists, could be used to manage Facebook when one is dealing with thousands of friends …
The Brahmanic view of the universe is one in which human beings play an intimate and essential part in the natural cycles and systems of our world. We cannot be just consumers, and yet we can produce nothing by ourselves. We are full participants in the processes of creation and destruction. These processes depend upon …
Yesterday evening we went to a Sulha meeting at the Everest Hotel in Beit Jala, since Dorit had to present something there. The atmosphere was quite good, though not so many young Israelis (lots of older ones). More young Palestinians, and also older ones. Lots of drumming and singing. Then we went to hear a …
With Facebook accounting for 25% of US pageviews and their conquest of the internet growing by day, it looks like the rest of the web is on the way to becoming terra incognita – a dangerous place with dragons and headless face-chested men. But still a more interesting hangout than Zuckerberg’s insipid blue and white …
Ubuntu 10.10 doesn’t work with Sun’s weblog publisher for OpenOffice. In the comments, it seems not to have worked since Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed ScribeFire, a Firefox extension. I wonder why WordPress hasn’t found an easier way to set up email-to-blog. That looked like such a laborious process that I gave up. I’m new …
Today brought the news that the developers of the Haystack project – which sought to enable Iranian citizens to use the web anonymously, have had to halt the project due to a security review. It appears from news reports that the project was never safe in the first place and may have placed Iranians more …
Saturday was a quiet day. Windows closed. Quiet hum of the A/C. So many days of our lives pass dimly, without attention having been paid to them. We are busy doing stuff, but if you ask us in what exactly we have been engaged the following day, there’s no telling. And now I was just …