There is a major difference between knowing something and understanding it. Knowing something means that specific bit of knowledge is embedded in your brain, a hopefully permanent item in one of the drawers of your mental filing cabinets, whereas understanding goes merely archiving it for future retrieval: implies dissecting it, analyzing it, and finally […]
Once I know I can remember whenever I like, I forget.
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Damn I love Google, but folks, be sure not to allow Google Desktop to index your PGP disks.
A postscript: if you’re concerned about all your hard drives are belong to Google, my firewall hasn’t notified me of a single instance of Google […]
People always talk about what a complicate mess getting married is. What they actually mean is that the marriage ceremony paraphernalia, all those things that people go through to get a perfect wedding - which often means impress as many friends as possible, and make people they dislike jealous - carry with it the […]
After many attempts by ye gods of work to keep me from taking time off, I managed to elope to Jacó last Thursday. The plan worked because it was sneaky about it: didn’t make any firm plans until the day itself, logged on early to AIM to discuss work issues as if nothing was […]