Monday, November 04, 2002

Fake Copy Application: This application pretends to be copying files, when in fact no files are being copied. Feel like goofing off at work? Run this application and when your boss catches you, point to your computer and say, "See, I'm working on those backups..." 4:03:13 PM

Color prints from the new color laser based print machines like at Costco look as good from a digital camera as from a point & shoot. Where the differences start to occur is when you enlarge the frame larger than 8x10 or when you crop and enlarge an image by about 3x. Up to that point, the prints are very good probably because they scan your nrgative to print them anyway. Here is an article from the New York Times. 3:59:53 PM

What is Xopus? Xopus is a browser based in-place wysiwyg XML editor. Xopus allows users to edit their XML data in an intuitive word processor alike way. 3:50:14 PM

So now I'm live on Radio! After playing with Radio in Beta and then reading Blogs forever, I'm finally online with a blog. Hopefully, I can use this as a repository for all the cool things, links, and articles that I find on the web and other blogs. After months of reading and referencing many blogs, I am going to put my foot in as much as for myself as for anyone. As ^zhurnal calls it, I am going to keep a hypomnemata. Memory Support: Hypomnemata is a neat Greek word. It literally means something like "under memory" or "below mind". Pierre Hadot in The Inner Citadel (Chapter 2, "A First Glimpse of the Meditations") interprets Marcus Aurelius's book as hypomnemata: personal notes, reflections, or note-cards --- messages that the Emperor addressed to himself, as a kind of "memory support". Alas, to a low-minded creature such as Yours Truly, a crude pun on the first word of "memory support" brings up utterly inappropriate images of unmentionable undergarments. Silly, I must confess --- but not a wholly irrelevant metaphor. Writing notes to oneself is a splendid way to lift and separate recollections from their unenhanced state. Personal memoranda, carefully composed, can shape thoughts to make them stand out dramatically. Artificial, arguably unnatural ... but to make a clean breast of it, as with physical body-building the results can be quite striking. And as Hadot himself (or his translator, Michael Chase) so aptly puts it, hypomnemata help a person both form and inform the mind --- two noble goals for an examined life. 3:43:43 PM

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