Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets

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There’s a good chance that you’ve heard of the recent speech that Obama gave about racial issues in the US, but there is (unfortunately) a good change that you haven’t read it. I wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t - a lot of speeches that are talked about really aren’t worth reading. That said, if you haven’t read a speech in decades, read this one. It’s powerful, it’s poignant, and it’s deep. It’s also written by the candidate himself.

Link to Speech: Obama Race Speech

Technorati Tags: politics, Obama, puppy

I’m heading out of town for about a week, and after that am in the middle of a final review of my MA thesis. As a result, my posts are going to be less regular - I’ll try to post some items, but this blog is going to be reasonably dark for the next little bit

Todays post will be delayed until tomorrow - I’m updating Ubuntu to 7.10 beta, which will mean I’m busy testing it rather than writing on this blog. See you tomorrow!

Due to classes starting up again my update schedule will be cut back to twice a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays.

This blog is part of a series of projects that I’m currently embarking on. My thesis topic is ensuring that a great deal of my research is in the philosophy of technology, but many of my sources for it are explicitly grounded in the empirical domain. While technical abstraction is fine and good, being a generalist about technology when writing philosophy is a poor second to writing about technology generally while having an understanding of its inner workings.

It is in this light that I recently purchased a two-year contract with Dreamhost so that I could learn about how to create and work in a full-fledged wiki, use wordpress, and become familiar with how cascading style sheets and other elements of web design operated. The learning curb is (significantly!) uphill, but I’m confident that the challenges will provoke me to learn, rather than dissuade me.

As noted in the ‘About’ section, this blog is ’semi-personal’. This means that, while I will be writing about events, objects, and theories that matter to me, I will not be writing about events in my daily life. This isn’t to prevent any potential readers from knowing about who I am, but to create a divide between the strictly personal, and not-so-personal, aspects of my life.

I will be updating this blog on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. This blog is powered by Wordpress and is using the Ocadia theme without any modifications.