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Internet entropy hits LiveJournal too
Well, it looks as though LiveJournal is also closed to me.
I couple of weeks ago I wanted to post something, but couldn't, it simply woulf nt simply would not let me. Looks like they've changed their editor to make it unusable on my computer (I'm typing this on another one).
For a long time WordPress and Blogger were in competition to make their ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
This was written at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union and is
a meditation on the deep human tendency to tribal conflict. Occasioned
by the then current, in 1989, battle between Armenians and Azeris for
the region of Karabakh it has of course more recent parallels up to
today. ( Read more... ) -
More on words and meanings
One of the things that sometimes puzzles or frustrates me is the way that words change their meanings, sometimes so rapidly that the meanings soon conflict, and the words become "skunked" -- they can no longer be used for meaningful communication because you don't know what the person who has just used the word to you means by it ( Read more... ) -
Words and meanings: Woke
Someone I follow on Twitter recently posted:
If your argument against something is that it is "woke" I will assume that you are so ignorant you cannot create a cogent argument and I shall feel no obligation to respond to your "claim".
I first heard people using "woke" as an adjective or a noun about 6-7 years ago, and so I looked it up. It was US ( Read more... ) -
Two children's dream/fantasy books
I've just read two children's fantasy books, which I found confusingly similar ( Read more... ) -
More Incommunicado: Communication 2022 vs 1722
Up at 4:48. Bloke commented on my Khanya blog, where I had mentioned Arthur Blaxall, saying he was writing a book on Arthur Blaxall and wants to talk to me about him. I reply by email and say fine, I'd be happy to ( Read more... ) -
Incommunicado
When we got back from church on Holy Saturday, 23 April 2022, we foudd we had no phone and internet service. We reported the fault to Telkom, but their fault reporting service seems totally dysfunctional, and they keep telling us the fault has been resolved when it hyas not, and there is still no service ( Read more... ) -
On reviewing children's books
I'm witing this in Read an Ebook Week, and I'm hoping that some of the children's literature fundis[1] I follow on Twitter will be moved to read and review or critique[2] one or more of my children's fantasy/adventure books ( Read more... ) -
My opinion of Vladimir Putin
People on social media seem to like to tell me my opinion of Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation. It seems a rather strange and arrogant attitude to me -- "If I want your opinion I'll give it to you", so though I don't normally like giving my opinion of people, I thought I might try to write it down, so I can refer people to it ( Read more... )
