Monthly Archives: August 2013

The Versatile Blogger Award

2013-08-30 · by · in Blogging, Writer's Craft · 3 Comments

It is my great pleasure to accept this award from experiencedtutors. You should really go over and have a look at his blog. He discusses his trials and tribulations as a private tutor in the UK as well as presenting little vignettes of life in and around the place where he lives. It’s a little […]

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Powerful Poem by William Blake

2013-08-29 · by · in Out on the Internet · 1 Comment

Poetical Sketches Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth O FOR a voice like thunder, and a tongue To drown the throat of war! When the senses Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness, Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressèd Fight in the troubled air that […]

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Story of my Work Life – xkcd: Standards

2013-08-29 · by · in Out on the Internet, Software Development, Technology · Leave a comment

  xkcd: Standards.

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The facts about alternative medicine

2013-08-16 · by · in Health · Leave a comment

Nice overview of the ineffectiveness of natural “medicine”.

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Comment on The True Cause Of Cruelty, Redux – Examining the “Spirit of Abstraction”

2013-08-01 · by · in Life · Leave a comment

“It’s called the spirit of abstraction, a term originally coined by Gabriel Marcel in his essay “The Spirit of Abstraction as a Factor Making for War,” and is defined as the practice of conceiving of people as functions rather than as human beings.” [From the article The True Cause Of Cruelty, Redux] It is an […]

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