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FLOATING INTRODUCTION (circa 2004/2005 ) :

"Blog" is short for "web log". Per the original definition, "Weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles."

Web logging should not be confused with writing Online Journals, Online Diaries, political commentary pages, or other dated-format web pages. Consider the difference between the definitions of the word "journal" and the word "log"-- a log, figuratively speaking, is a regular record kept to determine where you are and where you've been, and is kept to help others get to the same places.

The lyberty.com weblog is just notes on whatever I happen to be thinking about or researching at the time. Since it's essentially a personal log, it may or may not contain anything of interest to you.

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Feb. 14 2005:

For Valentine's Day -

The Knightly Conduct of Love:

"It is the pure love ... [that] consists in the contemplation of the mind and the affection of the heart;
it goes as far as the kiss and the embrace and the modest contact with the nude lover,
omitting the final solace, for that is not permitted to those who wish to love purely."
- Andreas Capallanus, author of the medieval best seller The Art of Courtly Love

(But Andreas also notes it would be a miracle if a man were placed in a fire and did not get burned....)

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A short history of Cupid

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HTML 4.1: The HTML element

update: PVR-150 page

new dictionary

Feb. 10, 2005:

re: Israeli Palesinian ceasefire (see previous entries)

Whoops. Spoke too soon. But really, what did you expect?

Situation 'Very Fragile' After Hamas Fires Mortars At Israelis
By Julie Stahl; CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief; February 10, 2005

. . . Hamas said it fired 46 mortars at the Gush Katif settlements early Thursday in retaliation for the killing of two Palestinians on Wednesday by the Israeli army.. .

January 28, 2005:

Tip of the day (if not the year):

How do I disable those annoying animated advertisements on web pages?

A: In Internet Explorer: Select Tools > Internet Options.Select the Advanced tab. Then:

Click Apply button.

Step 2 (this is required to disable those $%#&*!!!! Macromedia Flash animated ads):

Select the Security tab of the Internet Options window (assuming window is still open from step 1 above)

Click the Custom Level button.

Change the following settings to "Prompt":

Unfortunately, you'll have to respond to the prompts (see below for prompt example), but this allows you to still view the Flash content you actually want to view (just reload the page if there's a flash animation you want to see).The alternative is to uninstall the Flash plugin entirely (but then you might miss out on stuff you actually want to see).

Before:

Annoying animated crap:

After:

Prompts and static ads. Start choosing "No" by default.

Note that in some cases (forms, search boxes, redirects, new windows) you are going to want to select "Yes" to this prompt (some pages need the Active X plugins to work). But if you know you are going to a page with animated ads, you can select "No", then reload the page and select "Yes" if some function on that page doesn't seem to work.

January 24th, 2005:

[UPDATE: Feb. 14 2005: They took the site down. Now the addresses just redirect to anarchopedia.org.
But it was fun while it lasted!!
You can check out a screen capture of the home page here.]

Maybe I just haven't been getting enough sleep lately (it's currently 3:21 AM and I have work tomorrow), but this is THE FUNNIEST THING I've seen on the Internet in as long as I can remember:

Anarchapedia.org

This is FUNNY if you : have used Wikipedia
This is FUNNIER if you : have used Wikipedia a lot, and know that there are power struggles and "Sister Sites".
This is FUNNIEST if you : know that Anarchopedia is a spin-off of Wikipedia, and you recognize Anarchapedia has become a parody of Anarchopedia.

You can start with the links on the main page, like GFDL corpus access provider and Hilary Duff . . .

Or see this list of user contributions.

Hurry, it probably won't be in it's current state for long.....

Feb. 1, 2005:

new entries to Anarchapedia.org:

Taxes ; Robbery ; Death ; G-Rated

Jan. 16, 2005:

Free tools that may change your life!
Ok, they won't change your life, but some of them are pretty neat...

Links for today:
- SageTV review
- SageTV tips & tricks | Configuration
- Ulead Video Studio (video editing software); features compared to comprable products
- Pure Motion Edit Studio (from the makers of DVDLab)

- PVAStrumento (convert DVB / Digital TV / DigiTV's PVA streams (MPEG-TS) into MPEG-2)
- http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showcategory.php?cid=3

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