Tom Morris

19 August 2008

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Frances Berriman: What gets me the most is how on Earth is it beneficial for these companies to be so bad? It’s not like they get to keep everything they fail to deliver. It costs them more time, more money (petrol, man-hours etc.) and they have companies and customers calling them all the time to ask them why they’re so incompetent.

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I didn’t know about RDF/XML Source Declaration. Looks like something I may pop in to Rena when I add non-conjunctive graphs.

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A. C. Grayling: [Richard Holloway] falls into the trap of attempting to assert an equivalence between atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens (he does not name them) and those he describes as espousers of “strong religion”, those who believe they have a direct line to God and thus know what God wants. He criticises both for the assurance with which they assert their positions. But whereas some of the latter issue and carry out death threats, neither Dawkins nor Hitchins does. They shoot down ideas, the warriors of God shoot down living human beings.

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