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What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been!I first initiated contact with the O.T.O. on October 31, 1991. So it seems somewhat fitting that I cease contact on October 31, 2004; thirteen years after I began. During this time I have grown tremendously. Sabazius stated that the two “goals” of the O.T.O. are the ritual and fraternity; I am fortunate enough to ( Read more... )

Cliff Bostock recently wrote an essay for Creative Loafing called, Derrida and Dubya: Anti-intellectualism in America. It was very interesting. Some of his points made me immediately think of the OTO though. I read:

The anti-intellectual typically exhibits little curiosity about other perspectives and no skepticism about his own positions. When ( Read more... )

As an organization develops, it must take into account the members of the organization and the various level of competency within them. In general competency is defined as The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.1 However in an organization context is means more. Whereas skills alone often imply tasks and activities for ( Read more... )

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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred. My Mac's hard drive died last night. I had known it was coming, but that did not make it any better. I had the means to backup the data, but I did not have disk space to backup the programs. So in the end it is a net loss. I had a 5 Gig HD laying around for I formatted ( Read more... )

Michael Moore, you're a fucking moron!
Not Work Safe!

I am working this morning to pull together some statistics on web browser use. I found different kinds of warnings about the collection of browser statistics. I like the second one better:

1. Caution: statistics can mislead. Caching distorts raw data; each site attracts different audiences, with different demographics; each survey uses different ( Read more... )

One of our developers was discussiong the possability of using a wiki for internal documentation, collaboration and process communication. Does anyone out there reading this use a wiki in their office? How does it work? Please be as detailed as you can or care to be. Thanks!