In response to a posting here about how posters to indymedia can be “unhinged”.
This is probably more discussion than a comment, but, I kinda like the term “unhinged”. I think it is interesting how these mental images of different people fit together when describing the tone of some postings using indymedia.
“Unhinged” seems [...]
I was getting the following error message when trying to get a rails app working ‘Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query:’ It turned out that the mysql gem was not installed properly. I thought I had installed it, but it turns out that because I did not have the libmysqlclient-dev [...]
I was thinking about the differences between phonetic written languages and pictograph languages a little more today. I have been learning how to read Chinese and was surprised to find that a great percentage of the written language is now a mix of ideographs and a phonetic component. I was under the impression [...]
I love languages. I was fortunate enough to take a little french for a few weeks in pre-school with a french teacher who had a “Le Car”. Not that that had a big effect or anything. Just an anecdote.
I doubt I was the only person who invented their own writing system when [...]