2008-01-27 Housekeeping Day
Sometimes blogging is like dish washing; just when you finished the last plate/post, you realize that there's a whole lot of new stuff to wash/blog.
Today was one of these rather unspectacular housekeeping days. Not in the traditional sense -- the vacuum clean is broken --, but in terms of sitting at home and in front of the computer all day long. I finished a very cool project, though: my very first Google Gadget. I'm not going to go into details here, because that's what my new blog is for. Feel free to check out http://softwaremarc.blogspot.com every once in a while. In due time I will move the stuff from my old homepage there, too.
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I also spent a considerable amount of my precious leisure time randomly browsing the web. I found this, which made Kristine laugh and say haha! those people are buying weeds!! when I showed it to her.
Today's browsing harvest also brought up two Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes I quite like:
not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
and
don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn
for the vast and endless sea.
Beautiful, don't you think?
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One more thing before I go to sleep: Obviously, time is relative, and I learned it the hard way. "Now" is absolute, of course. "10pm" on the other hand means "10pm in New Zealand, which at this time of year is 10am in Germany and 5pm on the Philippines". Makes sense when it comes to calendars, phone conferences and other real time affairs. But in blogger I find it both confusing and annoying. Why? Because it messed up all my old posts! Those I published before 12am in Germany now look like they were written the day before.
For something I wrote last month, it should be enough to save the date, not the time of day. And now it turns out that this very date depended on where I was when I posted it. That's ridiculous!
I'm seriously considering to go through all my old posts and add the date to the title. But there are 308 old posts at this point, and I'm lazy. Assuming every post takes a minute to edit (after all, I want to make sure I add the real date!), that would add up to more than five hours of my life!
We'll see...
4 comments:
Current wisdom among physicists seems to be that a common time is a purely hypothetical construct which is contradictory to relativity. Every observer seems to be subjected to a different time running at different speeds, so you will find no collection of more than two observers measuring time identically.
You may find consolation in two options I have to offer:
a) use sidereal time, or
b) disregard time altogether.
Either will sufficiently alienate yourself from anyone you happen to be acquainted with in order to make the whole subject obsolete.
Don't call me about this, though.
S.
S.! You got a blogger account! No (public?) blog, though... You should comment more often, now that I'm deprived of your announcement mails! Or even better: make your (real? imaginary? complex?) blog public and let me do the commenting :-)
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." [Douglas Adams, of course]
I think I'll go for the renaming idea. Intern wanted!
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