It may sound like I argue semantics. It’s very common for me to go into the differences between words and talk about their meaning. This has troubled me for a while because whenever I thought about it, I’d come to the conclusion I was doing something different, but I couldn’t explain it. Then it came […]
What’s the difference between knowledge and information? If you want to go by dictionaries, the difference is subtle. Information is what you can acquire by observation, reading, or hearsay, with no guarantee of their validity. On the other hand, knowledge is what you can acquire by study, observation, or experience, and any ideas inferred from […]
Semantics! I’m not talking about the semantic web, but semantics in general. I’m sure you know, but the idea of semantics is the concern of meaning. For example, when I use language to communicate, I really want it to convey my meaning because that’s the reason I’m communicating. Hence, the importance of semantics and meaning.
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Today I just got back from staying in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference all last week. As usual, there were some great talks and great people, especially with the new Indie Game Summit. Of course now I’m distracted with game ideas, but also continuing to pick apart this incredible love for games I […]
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
That came from William Yeats, an Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1923. He died shortly before World War II, and his work has been referenced in pop culture from Stephen King’s The Stand to Seinfeld.
This quote was my […]
Hopefully I can put a more unique spin on my interpretation of Web 2.0. I definitely like to talk about decentralization, so I’ll try to put them together.
The Web 2.0 definition argument is about asking questions more than finding an answer. Nobody has the definitive answer, but that’s not the point. What I like […]
I recently wrote what seemed like to most people to be mostly about democracy and republics. After reading it, Adam Smith said something along the lines of "If you find yourself trying to decide between two extremes, maybe you’re looking on the wrong axis." Yes, I know that sounds like something an engineer would say. […]
I don’t know if I wasn’t paying attention or if we were taught incorrectly, but out of high school I was never very clear on the difference between a republic and a democracy. Then again, I didn’t have much interest in politics, or at least that’s what I thought. At the time, politics to me […]
Today I’ve been doing a lot of reading. The majority of which has been off of Paul Graham’s website. I think I first came across his site last year reading an essay he wrote called A Plan for Spam. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon links to other essays he’s written, but never took much time […]
I currently do my personal client computing using Windows XP, but, as some of you may know, I have plans to switch to Mac. Even though I’m only just now "switching" my primary computing platform, I’ve been a Mac OS supporter since OS X came out.
In fact, without even owning an Apple product, I’ve […]