2003-10-29

Languages

I got into the Arabic course! Starts tonight at 19:30. Al-hamdulillah!

Work

Work until Thursday, and then I’m on holidays *until the end of the year!*

Movies

I love Wong Kar-Wai movies. There is the wonderful photography by Christopher Doyle, there is the melancholy look at failed relationships, but most of all, he manages to show what we (or is it just me?) like in women. They way they move, the way they talk, the way they smoke, the way they pause, but mostly, it is about movement. I love it.

Wikis

Before going to bed I wrote some pages on CommunityWiki. That felt good. I also like the logo SunirShah created. (I still remember when we all brainstormed for the Meatball logo.) I’m still uneasy, however.

SunirShah

’’Essentially what I want to do is balance the forces. On one hand, I want to tie the two sites together so tightly they are the same community—as that helps both people. On the other hand, I want people to understand very clearly what it means to write where. That may be as simple as “I really like copyleft!!!​#$@$@!!@%%@%!#” so go to CommunityWiki. I recognize there will be more of those than the “I really like the BerneConvention!​#!%!#$!#$” but I don’t like either of those people, so you can have them both. ;)__

_By the way, you realize that you can’t ever back down from CommunityWiki, *ever*. I am fully keen on having a copyleft MeatballWiki, and since I don’t think copyleft is sane, *I* can’t be the Editor. – SunirShah_

SunirShah

Weirdness on the Web

George W. Bush declares *Protection From Pornography Week* ¹. Via tangra on ​#joiito. Doesn’t he have more important matters to attend to?

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Music

Listening to *The Top* by The Cure.

Comments

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I still don’t understand why *some* pages have comments and *other* pages do not. Is there a nice tutorial page on the concept, and how these blog thingies work? I’ll try copying code straight from your page, later. We’ll see how it goes. – LionKimbro 2003-10-29 17:50 UTC

LionKimbro

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All non-comment pages that show actual pages have a link to the comment page. It is an option and not always enabled. – Alex Schroeder 2003-10-29 21:16 UTC

Alex Schroeder

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Re: Arabic. Masha Allah 😄 Enjoy yourself. I’ve been trying to learn it myself too. But my job timings don’t allow me to go for any courses and I have to try to teach myself the language from a book.

– Noufal Ibrahim 2003-10-30 5:11 UTC

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Hehe, I’ve been trying to teach myself from a book for far too long now. I think I am too lazy for that. – AlexSchroeder 2003-10-30 11:40 UTC