Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Windows Vista
So Microsoft have finally named the long, long, long awaited follow up to Windows XP. It is to be called Windows Vista. I think it’s a crap name to be honest, but then what do you expect from Microsoft? They also had a little PR/hack do for the Xbox 360 in Dublin yesterday. The reports…
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McDowell
Dick has been posting on the Examiner’s story by Dan Buckley. I don’t see him linking to the absolutely fascinating interview done on the News at One. So here it is folks!. (Click ok when the error comes up, then press play) McDowell really loses it.
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Gavin
One of my pet searches is for my own first name. I have been watching it for a few years now. Something happened to Gavin Friday that he has disappeared off the list, so I am now ranked number two/three on Google.ie, followed by the singer Gavin DeGraw. On Google.com I am third. I’ll get…
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Man shot in London
This has been the big story of the day. According to my own sources he was wearing a bomb belt, and according to one witness he was: Another passenger on the train, Anthony Larkin, told BBC News the man appeared to be wearing a “bomb belt with wires coming out”. We shall have to wait…
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Bombs
It looks like some of the devices failed to explode, the detonators may have.
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Google Moon
When I first tested Google Earth I immediately noted that you could zoom out quite far from Earth, perhaps a little more than I need. So I said to myself, this probably means they will do the whole solar system using the best available astronomy data. It has started with Google Moon.
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India and the US
Dan has a very interesting post on the latest deal between India and the US. This is a very curious development indeed. President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. policies designed to discourage countries from developing nuclear weapons. The agreement between Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan…
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Blogiversary – 3 years old today
On the 19th of July 2002 I started this weblog. In that time the look and feel of it have chopped and changed, visitors have come and gone, readers have stayed or left. Software changed and blogging as a medium has evolved hugely. Back in 2002, I remember there being alot less blogs than there…
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Ads
The first rule of adsense is that you don’t talk about adsense. I am testing some new things out on my blog – just to see what happens! Blogging has been light thanks to the fine weather here in Ireland, I will return shortly.
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Ronan Mullen on Islam
I really don’t know what to make of Ronan Mullen’s remarks today. Has anyone any thoughts on this? We have grounds for humility. It took Western Christianity centuries to arrive at the insight that human dignity called for freedom of religion, equal opportunities between the sexes and so on. But Islam’s problem is that it’s…
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