General Paper 2
I have no doubt that after today the Hwachong blogosphere will be full of misery.
Oh, and hatred for GP as well.
Lessons of Life
Advice is freely given, but lessons are hard fought. They cannot be narrated, nor related, nor taught.
The only narrator and teacher is Life itself. Lessons that we learn ultimately become part of what we are, and form our principles, and our motivations. Advice, on the other hand, is easily given, and easily lost. But lessons, lessons last a lifetime. Sometimes even longer.
Herman Hesse’s Demian
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than the path that leads to himself.”
John Burdett’s Bangkok Haunts
A tolerant smile. “Of course I went mad. For a monk, what the world calls sanity is a whorish compromise.”
“But something saved you. You seem okay now.”
A curious expression. “Saved? There is nothing to save, my friend. You are talking like a Christian. You cannot cast yourself into the Unknowable in the hope that the gesture will buy you salvation–you have to jump for the hell of it. In a nirvanic universe there can be no salvation because we are never really lost–or found. The choice is simply between nirvana and ignorance. That is the adult truth the Buddha urges upon us. We are the sum of our burning. No burning, no being.”
John O’Hurley’s It’s Ok To Miss the Bed on the First Jump
I am of those I’ve touched, and the best of what they are.
Prelims, Week 1
So the horror has abated, temporarily.
Now to take a deep, deep breath, before plunging into the eddy again.
We gird ourselves for war, into battle we ride again.
Sound the horns of spirit, arise and awaken!
Prelims, part deux
I have come to the realization that mugging for prelims is a futile attempt at saving my soul.
The winner takes it all
Google Chrome
And while world+dog (and the blogosphere) is abuzz with how slick Google Chrome is and how safe / fast it is…
It pays to read Slashdot and The Register.
17 RSS feeds, and only 2 articles mentioning the breach of privacy.
Essentially, there is a clause in the Google Chrome EULA (end-user license agreement) that you sign over all your content creation and modification rights over to them.
Section 11.1:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
Can someone scream “copyright infringement” now?
Further information: The Register
Update: Ars Technica reports that Google has come back to the web with a revised EULA that removes that clause, or at least revises it.
