I’ve been doing some random reading. Some of it has been on meta-ethics and social systems. Perhaps partially spurred by how increasingly… well, wrong (for lack of a better term) things have going lately in US national (domestic and foreign). Also disturbing has been my recent news (and related research) on our fiscal and economic policy. The latter I’m still chewing on (and still looking for more academic/authoritative resources on). Anyway, that’s some long set up for some rather abstract links on ethical theory:
Category: Legacy
I think this GRE practice stuff is paying off. I got 28/30 on my latest practice math test, and 35/38 on my latest verbal test. On the latter, I’m not sure if my vocabulary has simply shrunk from disuse or if the GRE vocabulary words are simply more obscure. Probably a combination of both, although I fear more of the former.
CNet: With Google at gates, Yahoo arms itself
“I’ve had some really bizarre conversations with clients,” said the analyst. “Google is the elephant in the middle of the room where everyone is very wary of working with or working around them. If you talk to people at MSN or Yahoo or AOL–my sense is they haven’t figured out how you work this. Google is this strange force within the online universe that’s making everyone move kind of funny.”
I was counting up RIAA CD’s I’ve bought this past year to help figure out how much extra I’ll be contributing to the EFF this week, and was pleased to find that almost none of the music I’ve bought this year have been from RIAA members (Internet Villians, doncha know). In fact, right now, my current count of RIAA albums is 2. Now, MPAA movies, however, are a whole different story…
You know spam is out of hand when you get 3 emails in your inbox and 12 pieces of spam caught by Spam Assassin.
Over the past week, I’ve been slowly getting it into my head to prepare for taking the GREs (and probably applying for grad school). I even bought a practice book. Tonight, going through some of this stuff, I was reminded that I sort of like these standardized tests. I also start writing random responses to some of the issues for practice. Good to know that even if I’m out of practice, that I can still churn out some suitable fluff.
One of the many goals I have for this week is to catch up and organize my email. All of it. I only have about 100 non-list messages to read (but about 5000 to file), and I’m about 2000 messages behind on mailing lists. The nice thing I suppose is coming across random interesting stuff, like this online book on building custom CMSses entitled Content Management Design.
I’ve spent most of my free time of past few days working on computer stuff. My bid to do a remote OS switch over wasn’t successful (praise be for lilo -R), I may try again, or may just consign myself to running Red Hat. While cleaning out some old hardware, I managed to fry (wee, smoke) a 5 year old hard drive. Luckilly I had just transferred and burned the data on it. Hmm, the Sony DRU-500A is only $300…
Good interlacing guide: What is Deinterlacing? Facts, solutions, examples
Awesome: Two Towers Protest
