It seems that a lot of people are using the word “stick-to-it-iveness”. There’s even a page for potential authors that lists “stick-to-it-iveness” as a critical trait.
As this excellent rant points out, people seem to ignore that we already have a word for that: tenacity.
Even sadder: Google reports 995 hits for sticktoitiveness, 2810 for stick-to-it-iveness, and more with various other spellings. Argh.
I am a person that is easily fascinated. I find the might of a massive steam locomotive almost a century old to be fascinating, and I think that the nanoscale engines now in development are fascinating as well. Programming languages, philosophy, music, other sciences — all are interesting.
But there’s something more fascinating: people. Sometimes they’re annoying (such as anyone on the Jerry Springer show; I’ve failed to grasp the fascination there for years). Sometimes they’re mysterious. Let’s see where this little observation can lead…
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Looks like the head of the Church of England is a big Simpsons fan.
This is an amusing article out of Minnesota: Plane lands at Air Force base by mistake. (Links that don’t have such intrusive adds: link 1, link 2).
Wikipedia. It has everything. More useful articles than I’ve ever seen in an encyclopedia before, and you can download the entire thing if you like.
Somehow I missed this story, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten lots of press, but hey. I’ll give Microsoft credit for doing something right.
Although it is only a very small thing, very late.
Found this today: Tapestry – Your Favourite Comics by RSS
Tapestry is a series of RSS feeds for online comics. They help you keep up to date from within your favourite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days. Works great with the liferea reader. (Tapestry folks — you should add that to your list.)
OK, so I was looking for some new weblog software for this site. I had been using Drupal, but it was just not working well. It’s XML-RPC API was limited, it was slow, and it took a lot of effort to maintain a blog, which was poorly suited as the site’s primary purpose (as an example: there was no way to make it say anything other than “jgoerzen’s blog” for the title).
So, I went hunting for other blog software. Turns out a lot of people have been doing this lately, for completely unrelated reasons. Anyway, there’s a great comparison chart. He finally made a personal choice, but is continuing to maintin the list.
Slashdot also ran an article on MovableType recently, in which many people are looking for new options.
Welcome to the new ChangeLog. I decided to switch from Drupal to WordPress for several reasons, mainly that WordPress makes it easier to post and maintain a blog. If you are looking for archives from the old ChangeLog, they are here.
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