The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time ~ Bertrand Russell
February 23, 2008 • 8:27 am 0
My Hitler posting, which let’s face it isn’t all that interesting, got 74 views in total yesterday. Already today it has received 23. Search terms now include hitler had a iq of 141.
My page on Wittgenstein People I’d like to meet — definitely got 3 views yesterday.
Don’t like the Hitler thing, it’s skewing my stats and is a bit bizarre.
February 22, 2008 • 9:09 pm 0
Maybe that’s not so surprising (deplorable but not surprising) but what’s happening here at antisyzygy? My People I’d like to meet — maybe [Edit::NOW DELETED] page received 11 views yesterday and 65 so far today. Search terms used to find the page are Adolf Hitler and “Adolf Hitler”. Why now? It’s a bit worrying, unless it’s some robot type of thing (but then it’s annoyingly distorting my stats). Of course people are fascinated by the Nazis for all sorts of reasons.
January 10, 2008 • 8:29 pm 0
A Preview of HTML 5: Who’s afraid of HTML 5? Not Lachlan Hunt! As both a front-end web developer and a contributor to HTML 5, he tells us what we can expect from the emerging markup specification, whose goals include more flexibility and greater interoperability.
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(Via A List Apart.)
Another test this time of a feature of NetNewsWire which allows you to post articles from your feeds to your own blog.
Filed under: meta, technology, web
January 9, 2008 • 8:54 pm 0
Just a test post really.
Just testing the Flickr thing.
..If he failed the first time he took his driver’s licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed…
A quote from Pnin.
Tom’s Diner by melon38.
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June 15, 2007 • 7:56 pm 0
Jeannie was advised to give up smoking or lose one of her legs.
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May 27, 2007 • 3:25 pm 0
I’ll call my blog antisyzygy.
One way in which my antisyzygy manifests is the following. If everyone is talking football I’d want them to be talking philosophy or something more serious; and if everyone were talking philosophy I’d want to be discussing last night’s TV or something.
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May 23, 2007 • 7:40 pm 0
I still have to get a good name for this blog, random—unpopular—ramblings is more of a description. I chose unpopular because I was thinking of Bertrand Russell’s Unpopular Essays. However I have discovered the reason that Russell chose that word for his collection
…There are several sentences in the present volume which some unusually stupid children of ten might find a little puzzling. On this ground I do not claim that the essays are popular; and if not popular, then ‘unpopular’.
whereas I thought I’d try and capture the thoughts and opinions that put me at variance with popular culture. It’s true that I don’t like computer games, and I will add football, bourgeois pre-occupations with wine and what I suppose might be called fine dining, and Hollywood, to the list.
As I get older I find that I’m disappointed more and more with the reach of peoples’ intellectual interests. All the same I hope that I’m not a total (intellectual) snob, and I certainly don’t count myself as an intellectual. I do recognise that I am interested in intellectual things, and it seems to me that a lot of people are not.
What’s wrong with not being interested in intellectual things? Nothing. Nonetheless I’m going to try to poke some fun at the benighted masses which may strike you as being rather pathetic.
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May 12, 2007 • 12:32 pm 2
I am going to post here longer written pieces on random things. This will no doubt show how out of whack I am with the rest of the cyberworld, or even society at large.
First off I’d like to have a go at the Wii and the more banausic uses of computing in general. I’ll be back:)
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