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a perpetuall and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this, is not alwayes that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Submitted by caz on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 18:14
From Julia Lovell's "The Opium War", hard-copy p.95: "The integrity of [the Foreign Office, Downing Street] - a rickety amalgam of two eighteenth century houses - was threatened by the weight of the printing apparatus up in the attic, which sent ominous cracks through the building. Palmerston was so dissatisfied with the accommodation that when a fire started in one of the rooms in 1836, he reportedly could not bring himself to call for help with any great urgency."
Submitted by caz on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 13:27
To be continued / edited - revising, but this paragraph is beautiful.
Submitted by caz on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 01:45
I was on crack when I posted my last blog about running terminal through Vim. Terminal through Vim?! I must have been mad... it's all that crack I've been smoking. I realised the madness soon after the post, so I switched to GNU Screen. That lasted 2 hours - it was horrible trying to cope with the config file. I finally worked out how to rebind "Ctrl-a-| (vertical screen split - what a daft combination of keys. Far too much crack knocking about!) focus screen" to Ctrl-a-v, but by which time I was fed up. My next port of call was tmux, which to be fair is pretty awesome.
Submitted by caz on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 15:08
I love the idea of XMonad - it is a truly wonderfully useful Windows Manager. However, there is still the Windows leftover in me from years ago where I like prettiness as well as functionality. For me, XMonad is perfect but only when running a terminal and actually programming. At all other times, not being able to use my mouse and clicking big icons is a massive pain in the backside. That could be because I'm currently changing keyboard layout, and typing anything on Colemack takes me ages.
Submitted by caz on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 12:49
This published today pointed me in the direction of the study which needs full access to view. Basically, eating red meat will increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men; processed meat will do the same in both. This led me to remember the link between Multiple Sclerosis and red meat, information on which I found here.
Submitted by caz on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 03:41
The New Scientist has always astounded me with the kinds of things it produces. Many scoff it as a non-credible news source; other praise it for its merriment. I cannot help but wonder what they are doing with their headlines these days.
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