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Paul Raymont reacted to Michael Hofmann’s incredibly nasty attack on Stefan Zweig by resolving to read more Zweig. I don’t particularly want to defend Zweig, but going after his suicide note was really a bit much: Zweig left a suicide note which, like most of what he wrote, is so smooth and mannerly and somehow machined – actually more like an Oscar acceptance speech than a suicide note – that one feels the irritable rise of boredom halfway through it, and the sense that he doesn’t mean it, his heart isn’t in it (not even in his suicide).

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Stefan Zweig

I have started developing a Calendar using PHP5.  This calendar requires PHP5 due from the fact that it is object oriented.  The database will be a flat file database.  Future implementations will have MySQL and/or SQLite support. Since the Calendar function is not installed by default in non-Windows distributions, I created one.

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PHP5 Programming timeline

Building a program using PHP, I am seeing some of the limitations that it has.  Being used to Java programming, I am used to creating class constructors, get and set methods, and the famous method (function) overloading.  Unfortunately, PHP5 does not allow method (function) overloading. For example, the code shown below will not work in PHP. 

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PHP5 OOP limitations

Installing both PHP5 and Apache 2.2.14 on Windows 7 is pretty straightforward.  Connecting to them from another computer is a challenge.  I tried to connect to my server using both the IP address with the default port and port 8080, but they did not work.  Therefore, I had to search for a solution. PHP5 version 5.3.1

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Install PHP5 and Apache 2.2 Server on Windows 7

Seeing many tower cases, I noticed a pattern.  They are all either square or rectangles.  They are not very appealing.  Therefore, I wanted to find a tower case that is different. I have to admit, this tower case by Thermaltake is very impressive and sexy.  Unfortunately, being over $800 Cdn retail, many people cannot afford this

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Thermaltake Level 10 is a work of art

Everywhere we look there is advertising.  There is advertising on billboards.  There is advertising at bus stops, and there is even advertising on vehicles. I remember a picture in a newspaper.  It said, “The price of fuel is too high.”  Below that was a picture of a ferry with advertising all over it.  Below the ferry

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Advertising fever

Using Windows 7, I wanted a printer that can be used by all computers connected to the network.  Therefore, I tried to make the printer shared. Using the tutorial from http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/,  I set everything up.  Unfortunately, the printer did not show under Windows 7 as being shared.  Therefore, I decided to try changing the printer’s share

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Windows 7 Cannot save printer share

When I go online to look at reviews for products, I look at what it is capable of doing.  I noticed that some products have biased reviews.  This is not a good thing. We often look at reviews to determine if a product is worth buying.  Trusting the person writing the review.

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Product reviews – No longer an honest opinion

I looked around at the different web browsers available and came across an interesting topic.  Microsoft Visual Studio Express is available for free.  Although it is a stripped down version of the popular Visual Studio editions, it can still make exe files.  Therefore,  it is useful for people who would like to create their own

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Free Windows development tools Jan 2009

Absolutely the best moment of the dustup when Renata Adler nitpicked Pauline Kael to death (or at least to boredom). February 5, 1981 To the Editors: I am writing to protest in the strongest possible terms your decision to publish Renata Adler’s depressing, vengeful, ceaseless tirade against that brilliant critic Pauline Kael. Adler’s criticism in The New Yorker was mediocre, mushy.

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Matthew Wilder on Renata Adler on Pauline Kael

After the war, Wilfrid Sellars and his wife Mary, who was now successfully writing short stories, resolved to write for up to ten hours every day to get Wilfrid over his writing block. Eventually in 1947 there appeared the first of what was thereafter to be a steady outpouring of deep and challenging articles for the remainder of his highly successful academic career.

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Writer’s Block

I saw Heiner Goebbel’s odd Stifters Dinge this weekend (made odder with the persistent head cold I’ve had), and though I think it’s senseless to try to give a concrete analysis of it, one part jumped out at me, an interview with Claude Levi-Strauss where he says that there is nowhere left unexplored in the world, no remaining frontiers. I don’t think he’s right, but humanity is definitely at a place where we finally think of the whole planet as our home rather than any one part of it.

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Blumenberg on Running Away

Many people have an old computer, but wish to make a change to make it silent.  There are two options available.  The first requires one to get his/her hands dirty and also some twine.  The second involves underclocking.  http://aprivatebeach.com/blog/2009/11/underclocking-a-amd-phenom-ii-x4-or-intel-core-i7 First, buy a large fan.  The size of the fan depends on what you want the fan

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Converting an old computer to a silent computer cheaply Dec 2009

Looking online about brokerage fees that various shipping companies charge, I decided to call them about it.  I asked them all the same question.  Brokerage fees are charged on ground service, but if I choose air, or other service, will I still be charged a brokerage fee?  This is the answer I got from them. Fedex

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Avoid Fedex, DHL, UPS or other shipping companies brokerage fees Dec 2009

I was trying to install my wireless Internet USB stick in my Windows 7 computer.  Basically, all that a user needs to do is plug the device in.  That is what I did.  Unfortunately, I get the “An error occurred during the installation of this device” message, and “Access Denied”. Trying to reinstall does not work

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Solution to An error occured during the installation of this device” message, and “Access Denied”

I just placed an order for an Odyssey cell phone.  Being in Canada, I am very cautious about this no name cell phone since there are currently only 2 main carriers that use a SIM card.  When I receive this phone, I will document my experiences with it. http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/odyssey-wifi-quadband-dualsim-cellphone-w-3-inch-touchscreen/

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Purchasing a cell phone from Chinavasion Dec 2009

Reductionistic Framework Alert! Since “conservatism” has had such bizarre associations in the United States for a long time now, I thought I’d give brief accounts of the three breeds that I most often think of in connection with the classical sense of conservative (that is, the sense that still has something to do with the meaning of the word). Classic Conservatives Elitist Conservative : Firm believer in the natural superiority of a small elite. Worries about the danger of the unwashed masses having too much power, surely leading to chaos and mob rule

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Three Versions of Conservatism

I did some printing, and found that my documents were being printed past the top of the page.  When I look at the document on screen, it shows that it fits on one page.  Therefore, I tried pushing the document down, but only ended up with the document being printed on 2 pages.  This is

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Printing is too far to the left, right, top or bottom? There is an easy fix

It is not at all natural to want to listen to classical music. Learning to appreciate it is like Pascal’s wager: you pretend to be religious, and suddenly you have faith. You pretend to love Beethoven–or Stravinsky–because you think that will make you appear educated and cultured and intelligent, because that kind of thing music is prestigious in professional circles, and suddenly you really love it, you have become a fanatic, you go to concerts and buy records and experience true ecstasy when you hear a good performance (or even when you hear a mediocre one if you have little judgment.) Berlioz detested the music of Bach: he did not want ot enjoy it.

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The Elitist’s Credo

There’s that wonderful illness that incapacitates you from all responsibilities and just leaves you to lay in bed thinking about the most interesting things with just enough strength to pick up the books at your bedside which are conveniently piled there for you. (At an extreme, Robert Wyatt described recovering from the fall that left him paraplegic as an experience like this. I’m not so stoic, but it did produce Rock Bottom, so I can’t argue with the man.) Then there is the sickness that removes from you all your capacities one by one: movement, balance, sensation, thought, comfort, digestion, respiration.

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The Sickest I’ve Been in Years