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Today’s exploration: Beauty

“In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence.” [article, video]
(08-Nov-09)
Quote: On Teams

“I enjoy a working environment where the word ‘team’ is uttered in derision, and view the process of team or community as a result of mutual respect and enlightened self interest as opposed to a management method where fuzzy feelings are elicited to get the benefits and delegate the blame.” (comment by dkite on LWN article)
(29-Oct-09)
Skype wows

Calling to Greek landline phones (both in-town and country-wide) is cheaper with Skype than Forthnet. Yay for N900 handling all my local calls then.
(14-Oct-09)
Greetings.

“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings.” (1984)
(22-Sep-09)
Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard

“Scissors cuts Paper covers Rock crushes Lizard poisons Spock smashes Scissors decapitates Lizard eats Paper disproves Spock vaporizes Rock crushes Scissors.” (via @mperedim)
(21-Sep-09)

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To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... Greetings.

— Winston in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
in the evening, Sunday 6 November 2011
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Pushing the envelope with GMail
Received the following messages from GMail today, a few seconds from each other:

"Permanently delete 80944 conversations from Trash?"

"Oops… the system encountered a problem (#767) - Retrying now"

Temporary Error (503): We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable.
in the afternoon, Wednesday 31 August 2011
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If it was important, your phone would have rung. Now get back to work.

— @mperedim
in the afternoon, Monday 8 August 2011
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