Cantb2Serious is now (also?) posting at OddThinking.

http://somethinkodd.com/oddthinking

Don't raise your hopes... it will still only be occasional. The first post there took me hours :-(

I stumbled across a beginner's guide to blogging in a bookshop, so I had a look.( Read more... )

Recently I wrote about the format and motivations of blog entries.

At the crossing point of between the format of "point-of-view" and the motivation of "practising" is the idea of "practising a point of view".
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[Note: This is a substantially updated version of a previous entry.]

So, I have written a number of entries about how writing a good blog entry is hard. Rest assured, the irony has not escaped me.

Clearly, however, other people have overcome my reticence, and continue to post blog entries.

I decided to do an informal survey, to see if I could ( Read more... )

Last week I was discussing with a friend about whether there was a difference between the term "persons" and "people".( Read more... )

A cow-orker was having trouble with some software called an NTDS driver. It was a piece of software which allowed one hardware device to perform input and output (or "I/O") to another device. I don't recall exactly what NTDS stands for - I may never have known ( Read more... )

It was a Sunday many years ago, and I was at work ( Read more... )

Recently, the Howard government "banned gay marriages" (or more accurately, passed a new law refusing the recognize same-sex marriages performed in other countries.) They did this to preserve the sanctity of the traditional meaning of marriage.

While I applaud this step, I think they have not nearly gone far enough.( Read more... )

After my earlier entry about irony, I started to write another, putting the pieces in place for a long-term argument about why it is hard to write a blog without understanding your blog reader.

It started well( Read more... )

Irony

Let's be a bit bookish for a moment, and talk about the definition of irony.

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