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Thursday, 23. October 2003
XML/RSS feeds, better than email?

This site has offered it since the beginning, but just today I downloaded a small program to receive RSS feeds. I'm still getting the hang of it, but it avoids email notices, and people say it's a way to avoid the problems of IP blocking, spam problems, etc. We'll see how it goes.

For a short, sensible explanation, see this explanation. For the long of it, go here:

http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/

One good thing about it: you don't have to give out an email address, no personal information, to subscribe to the feeds.

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False dichotomy

The world is full of them. Like this one:

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." --Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

Yeah, you've got to "walk the talk" (I hate that phrase!), but you've got to know what the talk is.

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Disappeared ethics

"Maybe Ethics is a science that has disappeared from the whole world. It does not matter, we will have to invent it again." --Jorge Luis Borger

Rather, we ought to go back to the source of right behavior and recuperate the vision of loving one's neighbor as oneself. This lost knowledge is to be found in once place, and only one: Holy Scriptures.

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Brains

I don't know the context of his statement, but it appears true:

"Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated." --Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Appreciation can also mean remuneration.

Appreciation can be a cause of the feared "brain drain."

But on the other side of the equation, it can be a cause of the desired "brain gain."

Just depends on how you look at it, I suppose.

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