Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • A letter from … Cyprus

    This is the second of the letters I’ve got from MRC, the wrighter of the “Random Blatherings” blog that you can see on my blogroll. She’s holidaying in Cyprus (as the title implies), and MAN can that woman wright. 15 pages, mostly full of stuff she’s either sent me in an email, or text, or…

  • vocational Guidence Councellor

    Is where I’m going tonight. I’m going to be taking the application form I gained from the Warden of Ordinands, and I’m going to try to get him to explain the idea of “Vocation” to me. Like I’ve said before, I know what I want, I just need to find the words that the Church…

  • Life is Full of Surprises

    Okay… So I think it’s sorted. I think that everythings done, closed. Neat. And then, 8:30 this morning, a phone call, from the Ex-Fiance. Telling me that she still misses me, and that she wants me back. Say what? Pardon? Exqueese Me? Baking Powder? Of course, she says in the same breath that her actions…

  • The Warden of Ordinands

    That was one tough meeting. I found it very difficult to feel at ease there, knowing how important this meeting was. They do try to reassure you that it’s all done with compasion, but I also get the feeling that they see hundreds of hopefuls, and that probably dulls their sense of excitement. It’s probably…

  • Meeting with the Warden of Ordinands

    Is tonight. I guess I should remember to post about things in advance. This is going to be the scary next step in my journey to joining the dog-collars. I’ve no idea what this is going to be like, and it doesn’t help that I am utterly exhausted. Perhaps, with a bit of luck, I…

  • Active Directory Make No Sense?

    Just a quick post to say that “luma”, available on Fedora 7 is a nice little directory browser, that also works with active directory. The handy thing about it is that it will tell you precisely where you are, all those pesky dn’s, dc’s, and ou’s. All nicely printed out for you. It may also…

  • Ether Bunny!

    Knock Knock… (who’s there?) Ether! (ether who?) Ether Bunny… Yea! [chorus] Yeay! Stay on the Happy side, always on the happy side, Stay on the Happy side of life! Bum bum bum bum bum bum You will feel no pain, as we drive you insane, So Stay on the Happy Side of life! Knock Knock……

  • Microsoft Finally Listening to Customers?

    http://port25.technet.com/ This site appears to be a site dedicated to improving ineroprability between linux and windows, from Microsoft, no less. I guess it’s more a way of getting linux to work with Microsoft, but I suppose if Microsoft are willing to GPL the stuff that makes it work, then it’s all good…. ~SK

  • Unexpected Downtime

    I would like to appologise to the few readers I have (all two of you) about the unexpected (and excessive) downtime. It appears that an upgrade overwrote the config files, thus stopping WordPress ( the blogging software I’m using) from being able to conenct to the database. This (as you can see) has now been…

  • Teddy Bears

    It’s Like This Even the samurai have teddy bears, and even the teddy bears get drunk [Uncredited – From fortune] I have a Teddy Bear, he’s called Thomas. He has a much longer name than that, but I appear to have forgotten it =(. Thomas is blue and white stripped, and very small, but unique,…

  • Anyone remember my WoW account?

    Just decided to re-activate my WoW account, and it appears that it’s vanished. IF only I could remember a) what email address I used and b) what username… I know it’s in here somewhere. SK

  • Woodcraft …. Folk?

    err… who? yes, I felt the same way. Though I’ve just spent 10 days on a camp with these people. And what a week it was. I suppose most of it was due to the type of person I am, and the type of people that I’m likely to run into. I suppose the first…

  • Families Who’d Have Them?

    My Grandfather is in hospital. If I was a better blogger, I’d have put that up a fortnight ago when he went in. The problem is that my Aunt has decided that he’s never going to get better, and is busy doing a wonderful impression of a Greek Mourner (all wailing, and crying, and gnashing…

  • A Randome Quote

    …everything on this earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. Mourning Dove, (Salish 1888-1936)

  • The Rain

    The rain saddly pitter-pats out your name, As the world cries it’s tears for us. Theunder gently rolls it’s sympathy, As though it too missess your touch. Slowly the world is washed clean, It’s broken heart healed by the rising sun, Then sit, close my eyes, And wait for the rain.

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