Likeminded

Picked this up from Peter and already assumed we'ld get similar results.

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis. Postmodernist 81% Existentialist 75% Materialist 75% Modernist 63% Cultural Creative 56% Idealist 50% Fundamentalist 25% Romanticist 0% What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

Would there be a significant correlation between being postmodern and the willingness to fill in these kind of tests.

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Media attention.

Steven (with picture!) and by natural extension we, Apache Cocoon, Daisy and xReporter have made it into the local ICT magazine.

The poor bloke is crossing the Dutch-Belgian border as we speak (returning from xTech), unaware of the fact that he'll be instantly recognized if he doesn't ware sunglasses (which he never does).

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I'm back

and wearing a t-shirt!

Have just spent some days hiking up around 'La Côte d'Opale' with the missus and the kids. And we're getting more succesful in the PR-hiking it seems: two days in a row (15km resp. 10km) *and* letting them spontaneously say themselves how much they liked it :-)

For those ready to try out themselves: the B&B we can recommend.

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open cross talk

Found this pointer in local press which advocated this as a recommended read.

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XML Schema reads

Some old schema advise that still ranks high up at the google:

• Best Practices
• Design Patterns

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going on

After last year's round-up I'm feeling compelled to continue the young tradition. Thinking about the economics of things I can just drop in the delta's (yeah, I confess geeky me considered doing that in patch file format)

• age: +1
• bmi: -2.4 // or more easy weight: -8 kilograms (in pounds)

I'm not unpleased about that last item there (I'm still floating enough for my weekly swim). Don't ask me for the recipe, it's been a mental thing: The point (around september last year) were I actually felt the fat between my braincells was placed close enough to the decission centre to keep up with a more moderate lifestyle.

Mom called in yesterday evening already (parents are trekking around in Morocco for the moment) since she wasn't sure when she could contact me today. (which in these modern times means she is the one with the less clear-cut plans for the next day).

My plans are layed out by the missus: nice dinner out and a proclaimed good belgian film. In rertrospect of last year's version: The Firepot and wine season has been opened allready, and just waits for friends to stop by on an evening with suitable weather.

No extra mental age-awareness to report this year. I guess that after the quantum leap into the 'middelaged' state, I'm into a stable region (homeostasis!, I promised) for quite some time again.

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One

One me, one world, one universe, just one idea. The idea I had to jump out of my reread of Jostein Gaarder's 'Sophies World' to read up more detailed works on this or that filosopher.

So when the book re-introducing me to the Monism of Spinoza (his lenses do give a different view) collided with me and the kids going to the library I ended up coming home with 'Looking for Spinoza' By Antonio Damasio.

The book positions the roots of emotions and feelings, and how they fit in the bigger LIFE thing as the adequately complex regulation system for an the complex life-forms we are. It's quite a challenging read (even in dutch translation) but I'm slowly harvesting the low hanging fruit and gradually finding myself more and more at ease in a scientific foundation (in more then one way!) for why I felt OK with Spinoza's view.

Best thing is, while reading there is an almost continuously growing amazement. I like it when science does this: explaining things but not taking away the mystery, nor the appreciation for what is truly wonderful (and not less so by understanding some of it)

Anyways I'm close to dropping words like conatus and homeostasis appropriately in a conversation :-) # Posted by mpo at 08:20 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)