This is probably old news, but it’s fun and at the same time amazing: DHTML Lemmings!

No is the answer. I forgot the question.

(inspired by a tshirt I saw the other day)

This is a first for me. Here’s the transcript of a chat I just had with an old business contact. Edited to remove the irrelevant bits, and to protect the clueless:

XXX: you probably don’t know this, but google is a big part of the govt plan to monitor people, and google’s in the world’s best position to do that. my favorite is google’s idea to remotely activate the microphone on people’s pc’s and record everything that happens while their pc is on

me: so it’s obviously useless for me to point out that you might be wrong, since I don’t know what’s going on

me: instead, I’m going to nicely ask you to share whatever you’re smoking :)

XXX: that is public information, so whatever

me: conspiracy theories don’t exactly qualify as “public info”, you know :)

XXX: oh fuck off. i really cannot handle that kind of insult to my intelligence.

XXX: get educated about things before you insult someone who has done some research

me: and you are in a better position to know than somebody who works at google, why exactly?

XXX: obviously you haven’t even bothered to spend 5 minutes googling it for yourself, so stop wasting my time.

(XXX has changed status to: Busy)

me: you can tell well founded arguments when the other person gets rude and aggressive instead of presenting arguments… but whatever

me: have a nice day too

XXX: facts are not something you debate. you verify facts to be true or false. you haven’t bothered to check the facts, have you? presenting arguments is done when there is an opinion to be argued. do you understand the difference between opinions to be debated and facts to be verified? now, really, don’t waste more of my time.

XXX: and you’re who started the aggressiveness and rudeness by implying that i’m some kind of dope smoking conspiracy nut.

news.com ne anunță că experții de la American Medical Association au refuzat să clasifice dependența de jocurile pe calculator drept boală psihică. Experții de la Adevărul ne anunță că, de fapt, este exact pe dos (fără sa explice de ce – e menționat în titlu, restul articolului e plin de speculații bazate pe nişte “studii recente”).

În altă ordine de idei, mi-am configurat tastatura româneasca pe OS X şi o să scriu, din când in când, pe româneşte. Partea proastă e că nu gasesc nicaieri în layout litera ş – nu-mi dau seama dacă-s eu chior, sau dacă e un bug.

You are The Hermit

Prudence, Caution, Deliberation.

The Hermit points to all things hidden, such as knowledge and inspiration,hidden enemies. The illumination is from within, and retirement from participation in current events.

The Hermit is a card of introspection, analysis and, well, virginity. You do not desire to socialize; the card indicates, instead, a desire for peace and solitude. You prefer to take the time to think, organize, ruminate, take stock. There may be feelings of frustration and discontent but these feelings eventually lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.

The Hermit represents a wise, inspirational person, friend, teacher, therapist. This a person who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious and confusing.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Seriously, you should know by now that my blog tends to lapse for months at a time. Anyway, I’ve recently been under a constant flood of spam comments – I’ve now installed the (very cool) reCAPTCHA plugin. So, go ahead and comment, you’ll be helping to digitize books :)

In other news, Dublin weather was particularly shitty over the last two weeks. Quite unlike back home, where they’re all suffering from massive heat.

It’s official. Yay!

Maybe try a different keyword?

Romerican seems to be a (genuine) blog of an American that moved to Brasov. Found it by accident and spent a couple hours reading it already. It’s quite refreshing to read about your hometown as described by a foreigne.