Funny thing about the Internet: it’s often a double-edged sword, at least when it comes to using it to feel “connected” to the world at large. It can bring you closer to people and allow you to feel like part of a community, or it can cut you down and make you feel like you’re [...]
A friend of mine recently e-mailed me a link to the White House’s newly updated Civil Rights page and pointed out the addition of a section on issues important to the LGBT community. I read through it, and I have to say, I’m honestly very impressed. And actually, not a little teary-eyed as well.
Now, I [...]
I’m in a rather contemplative mood at the moment. I suppose I’m always kind of in a contemplative mood at some level, given my perhaps overdeveloped self-awareness (and/or self-consciousness), but tonight it’s especially palpable. And for good reason: touched off by a vague feeling of dissatisfaction (whether valid or not) with my life’s accomplishments – [...]
As a quick-and-concise follow-up to my previous post on failure, a bit of wisdom from Sir Winston Churchill:
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
What is failure?
The word can mean many things, but it seems to universally, across its myriad uses, have a strongly negative connotation – at least to my mind. I suppose there’s an argument to be made that a failure is just an opportunity for growth, an obstacle to be learned from and then overcome, that [...]
Lately it seems I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Unfortunately, what I’ve been reading has not necessarily been what I think I should be reading. What I should be reading – like, really, really should be reading – are all those lovely research articles and books that actually relate directly to my thesis-not-quite-yet-in-progress. (I [...]
How appropriate. I spend days (weeks, months…) thinking off and on about my badly neglected blog, about how to best bring it back to life, about how to craft the “perfect” re-starter post to freshen things up and get things going again… and then as I’m here looking at my own past advice to “just [...]
I have a New Year’s resolution.
As January rolls forward and 2008 steadily increases its hold on our calendars, I have – like so many others – decided to take the beginning of yet another revolution around the Sun as an opportunity to make a (hopefully) lasting change in my life. This will be the year, [...]
Well, here it is. I set up my blog a little over 3 hours ago, and here I am at 2:30 in the morning writing my “first post” (with thanks to the often rather eccentric insanity of Slashdot for inspiring the term and its connotations).
So now, after spending much time fiddling with WordPress configuration options, [...]