Archive for May, 2008
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In the mid-90’s I began a study of history and worship that led me in 1999 to enter the Orthodox Church. By then, the text file where I’d been keeping notes had grown into a collection of paper and electronic documents and a daunting pile of books.
When friends asked me why I converted, I wanted [...]
GTD
My GTD control panel: silouan.tiddlyspot.com
GTD is Getting Things Done, a work methodology that enables me to convert caffeine into deliverables.
In 2005, Wired Magazine called GTD “A new cult for the info age”, describing the enthusiasm for this methodology among Information Technology and knowledge workers as a kind of cult following.
In 2005, Ben Hammersley interviewed David [...]
Winston Churchill: Pull out of IRAQ ASAP
At present we are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.
FBI backs off from gag order against the Internet Archive
It is one of only three known instances in which the FBI has backed off from such a data demand, known as a “national security letter,” or NSL, which is not subject to judicial approval and whose recipient is barred from disclosing the order’s existence.
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