http://boredastronaut.com Dude, where's my rocket car? Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:08:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Internet, I don't know what's going on. I can't make sense what I know, and I know very little. No one can know enough to truly know what's happening. And if you don't know, you cannot make choices which depend upon you knowing. In which case, you are forced to ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=80 Someone today mentioned that they discovered my website and found it interesting, or something. Flattery is heroin to my ears. I've all but abandoned pretensions to philosophy. It's lost its lustre and besides, it's a pointless exercise unless it keeps you distracted. You can't prove anything with words. But you can sometimes ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=79 Reading about existentialism, I'm once again made highly conscious of the absurdity of most theories and philosophies about life, what it means, and how to live it. I'm glad there are philosophers to question these things, although that emotion—gladness—is probably unrelated to philosophy or even thought. Being pleased that there are ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=78 Actually, HTML-based web application technology is obsolete. At least, it should be. It's time to start thinking about how to break back out of the browser. It's time to re-imagine the Web as a source of data, not a repository of documents or a dynamic page layout system. A software interface ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=76 On or around March 30, Marketcircle shipped the latest version of its flagship business information management tool, Daylite. The new version, 3.9, includes a re-write of the back-end to work on a completely different database system (postgreSQL), a new dedicated server and server administrator application, and support for our new ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=75 The United States has a new president, and lots of people are excited about it. I'm glad to see the end of the second Bush era in the U.S. I'm dreading the spectre raised by Bush Sr. of another Bush White House—this time with Jed. I am diametrically opposed to ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=74 I think I know why I don't blog very much. I either have hyper-focus or super-wide focus. Hyper-focus is for technical ideas. Currently, I put almost all of my hyper-focus effort into work, which is usually both private and overly technical (read: boring). I've got another blog for technical writing, but ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=73 So I bought a new TV and Blu-Ray player. Very good deals, relatively, anyway. $900 + insurance + tax + shipping for both. Am I bragging? I'm trying to be straight up, here. I declined to buy a Sony PS3 because I won't play games on it. I don't want ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=72 Read "Build a frontier, you get cowboys" Part I and Part II. (The link at the end of the first page is broken, but my link works.) http://boredastronaut.com/?p=71 I just watched Michael Moore's SICKO. I have mixed feelings about his methods, but I applaud his message. The world is at war. And it is being fought over a single driving disagreement: who gets to have a better life. And there are only two points of view. The first point of ... http://boredastronaut.com/?p=70