Cartesian

So discourse is basic to being human. We have an endless thirst for communication – and maybe all on this earth, plants, animals and stones, and all in this universe; our universe is swamping itself with information: on this, read Valentijn university Groningen.

But back to discourse. We have to translate to the Cartesian to escape space/ time limits of ourselves. Translate, reshape, abstract, present, formulate, enrich, illustrate and market. Telepresence never made it.

NRC October 24: P.F. Thomese on communication – nobody listens, we just send sound bits & bites, tweets and blibs. Next Ger Groot on the advantage of multilingual Europa and the need to let go of expected patterns when traveling – it is even wise to let go to survive / grow.

Then Nexus – the Tilburg based institute on humanoria in Europa. A text on the concept ‘West’ developing since medieval days.

My conclusion is China should cherish the dialects. A language is shaped by its use in Cartesian spaces and the speaker forgets about its origin only remembering – being confronted – when leaving the ‘language territory’.

Then digital. How about that Cartesian space? We split up the 3D communication space in individual segments leaving out 99.99% of the communication: smell, gestures, kindness and flirt.

A text is ‘reading with someones elses mind’. A tweet is just a poke, a hint from a shout box. A movie is ‘looking with someone elses eyes’. A blib is just a poke, a  hint from a shout box. A dance is muted conversation exploring and exploiting non-verbals. A (moving) avatar is just a poke, a hint from a shot box. Music is meta conversation, above, re-inventing and circumventing speech, making speechless, talk any language like love.

Is it age revolting here to juvenile chaos? Am I lost in space (and time)? Again? I feel the urge to read Habermas (again). Back to feel-good, comfy pattern. And then I think Pandora was never boxed. We have been deluded for some ages, some centuries, with hereafters and progress and men with mitra, democracy and development. The human race suffocates itself demonstrating its unique capability for suicide; to quit communication.

All people are confronted with it-self, its existence, its consciousness, its communications, its 3D presence, even if it is on the verge of death. I like Madonna: express yourself! Or in other words: communicate.

Journaille teenagers

I read the paper in which I read a comment on a banks bankruptcy. It starts with a quote on hypocrisy by Abraham Lincoln. That had to draw my attention: hypocrisy. I receive that label stick onto in respect my behavior, remarks an actions. So one reads.

The quote must have been Googled. Nothing wrong with that, but sign of the times. Journalists are Google-savvy for facts / stories / background to open their articles. Wikipedia will help too.

Last night I tutored my son on a verbal essay he had to create and present as exam. The topic was pro or contra nuclear power use; we Googled references, pictures and evidence / check. That is the today generation not knowing about BC (before computer). It is about the attention-span of browsing a Google searh result page. If it is not there kids do not look for it further.

Medusa head

What worries me is that he has to earn my pension in a couple of years (not really off course; I made some precautions). I was happily surprised he used Google docs. His Dutch (sic!) teacher showed him around and demands kids in his class to use Google docs. Great! Apart from the danger to get superficial – as would be to base your opinion on FOX or ….

….. next to the above referred to article it said ‘multi-tasking, multi-stressing’. A recipe for de-stressing from the PC at work and E-mail in particular Oh yee, my son e-mailed me too… I am lost!

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Back to hypocrisy. I Googled and found:

NUMBER:	9529
AUTHOR:	François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
QUOTATION:	Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
ATTRIBUTION:	Maxim 218.

The one by Abraham:

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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Patterns

Break them. Deliberately change them. Shake that comfort zone; derail; defrost; fluid; flow.

No daily drinks, no weekly hockey bacchanal, no weekly city walks; midnight pillow hit.

Now 5 minutes power rowing, cycling evenings, water (with bubbles), occasional sailing.

It feels good thus far.

Cadie

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/tech.html

Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity * Introducing CADIE * Technical Specifications *

CADIE’s homepage

When you walk into a dark field in the middle of the night… and look up into a black sky and wonder how many stars there are in the universe, let’s be honest: in all likelihood you don’t have the faintest clue, and even if you’re one of the few who do, you lack any real capacity to comprehend the figure save for the same vague sense of stunned wonder that our earliest human ancestors felt when they looked up from the African savannah at the same starry sky. Our species’ journey toward tonight’s epochal announcement had much less to do with that awestruck moment than it did with the moment those same ancestors woke up hungry the next morning and started studying animal tracks in the savannah mud, thereby inadvertently developing concepts like time and causality which, by abstracting both location and temporal context into a unique reconning tool within the brain, sparked the set of responses that, ages later, we now call reason.

Network World , 10/01/2007

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100107-freeware.html

13 free tools ease IT management

Freeware, open source applications tackle configuration, NetFlow, patch, storage, security and systems management

By Denise Dubie , Network World , 10/01/2007

Finding the perfect tool to relieve a pain point or fill a gap can be invaluable to network managers. When the tool is free? Even better.

Freeware applications can be a simple utility such as Ping or a more complex set of tools that address many facets of IT management, such as the open source network management software Nagios. In both cases, the tools are free and the benefits are plenty. Tristan Rhodes, network engineer at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, authors a blog on the topic of open source software and supports such free tools for both philosophical and practical reasons.

“I am an advocate for open source software, and I am a network engineer who needs tools,” he says. “We use a large number of open source network management and security tools.”