Just watching some of the video coming out of New Hampshire with the Edwards campaign. Lots of bloggers standing there asking questions (not particularly tough ones, mind). What I've seen of Edwards seems to suggesthe's probably about as policy-free as our very own David Cameron. Prove me wrong, mate. 
I've got it figured out! File_Find is a PHP (PEAR) package to make it easy to search filesystems. This article provides code samples describing how it is used to map directory trees. Why is this useful? Well, it makes it so that one can easily set up a mirror service to the OPML blog server. The pieces are all falling in to place. I think my first task for 2006 is to make a substitute version of the blog hosting component for the OPML Editor. That way, I can be sure that if opml.org doesn't continue to exist, I can still blog in the same way. This is how Dave designed it to be, anyway. Anyone want to work on this with me? It's all gonna be just PHP5, flat-file and XML. Work will either be done by e-mail or CVS/SVN once we get there. (I see that Eclipse now supports Subversion, so that makes things a bit easier).
One would think that the ID movement might try to get the left hand to talk to the right. Evidently not.
Here's a prediction for 2007 - it's gonna be just as filled with pseudoscientific crap as 2006 was.
Mashable has some pretty funny MySpace profiles. This is why advertisers won't value MySpace.
I just tried out Wridea. I don't get it. It's supposed to be an idea processor, but I prefer using an outliner.
Kierkegaardian pieces 
I was just browsing through my notes and I found some fragments from, well, the Philosophical Fragments and other parts of Kierkegaard's ouvre. As a New Year's gift, I thought I ought to share them.
"[The PF is] without any claim to being part of the scientific-scholarly endeavour in which one acquires legitimacy as a throughfare or transition, as a co-worker or as a volunteer attendant, as a hero or at any rate as a relative hero, or at least as an absolute trumpeter. It is merely a pamplhet and will not be anything more even if I [were] to continue it with seventeen more" (PF 5)
"I can stake my own life, I can in all earnestness trifle with my own life - not with anothers" (PF 8)
On the systematising of objective thought: "[it] translates everything in to results, and helps all mankind to cheat, by copying these off and reciting them by rote". Compared with the subjective: "puts everything in process and omits the result; partly because this belongs to him who has the way, and partly because as an existing individual he is constantly in the process of coming to be" (CUP 68)
"Existence itself, the act of existing, is a striving, and is both pathetic and comic in the same degree" (CUP 84)
"Is a man who hopes to prove that he is sane by uttering a generally accepted and generally respected objective truth, insane?" (CUP 174)
"Just as it once required energy and determination to become a CHristian, so now, though the renunciation be not praiseworthy, it requires courage and energy to renounce the Christian religion, while it needs only thoughtlessness to remain a nominal Christian" (CUP 326)
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