Man the blogsphere is heating up. Bill Gates has expressed his desire to start blogging and Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun, is actually blogging right now. Both companies have blog policies that are open to their employees, on what is allowable and whats not.
To think that before, in the major companies, you could be fired for something you said on a blog. Now, you’re pushed to blog.
In 1996, Charles J. Dunlap published an article entitled “How We Lost the High-Tech War of 2007″ in the Weekly Standard. The article itself was a fictitious account as to how America lost a war against a religious, non-Western nation because it disregarded the report of a Sgt. Major:
“[America] will often face warriors who have acquired a taste for killing, who do not behave rationally according to our definition of rationality, who are capable of atrocities that challenge the descriptive powers of language, and who will sacrifice their own kind in order to survive.”That was the year 1996. Five years before September 11th. Sometimes I can’t help but shake my head. So many people called it, how were we not ready? How did we not know?
Its my 2nd day working in the Office of Government and Community Relations at Drexel for work study money but I just noticed something extremely interesting: everyone is on AIM. A second ago, instead of a person walking over to the other person’s desk and taking a note, it was instead sent over IM, in a quarter of the time.
Honestly, I’ve never seen that done in a small office setting. It’s quite amusing. It only took the adults seven years to catch on.
This is the ultimate test. I honestly don’t know of 8th-12th grade student that could pass this in the time frame required. I know I couldn’t.
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
I still don’t understand it. The most searched for term that leads directly to our site is for “Linux Copy Command.” The reason I find that hard to believe is because the entry itself is extremely short, a quickie I typed up at work while messing up a laptop. Not only is it verbose but it goes into almost no detail…yet its the first result on google and is now up to roughly 54 visits a month off Google.
Thats just insane. We beat out the actual man pages themselves on that link. I wonder if people are getting what they need when they come here looking for that. I don’t know though - they won’t comment. In the months that that entry has been up not a single person has said whether my concern over certain flag switches was appropriate. Hmmm.
Anyways, just thought that that was interesting. I’ll soon be exploring some more linux commands and eccentricities since I now have a shell account at Drexel and I’ll also soon be doing some co-hosting work for my friend Darin.
Here’s an interesting tidbit for those haven’t figured it out yet: I’m stubborn. I do not like to give up, especially when I feel that I am right. This carries over in my personal relationships, my school work, and even into sports. Yup, sports. Sometimes, it goes beyond stubbornness. The type that makes a man stand before a speeding Taxi, intent on claiming that space as his, or the kind that makes the Light Brigade charge into a valley rimmed by cannons armed only with swords.
Thankfully, it wasn’t that bad today, but close.
My father and I played 9 holes of golf today; or rather, I played about five. Why only five? The other four I was too frustrated to do anything beyond throw my club and stomp on the ground. Golf is supposed to be a relaxing game, a game of gentlemen. A relaxing, commraderee enriched hours of friendship. Thats what the brochure said and damn it, I want my money back! Its the fifth time I’ve gone golfing and I’ll come up with some stunning shots, like my drive off the first tee with a 2 iron that outdistanced that of even some of the best players there today using a wood.
Did I mention that was my best shot?
I never gave up tho. Instead I hacked, chopped, and destroyed enough grass to make the Silver Springs course look far too much like the Sahara for comfort. I don’t know what was wrong with me today. Stubbornness can correct a lot but even here it couldn’t help. I did learn something however.
I learned go-carts can do donuts on dirt and will get stuck in water. The day wasn’t a total wash.
I know Sam and I have stated on numerous occasions that we don’t write on here for anyone else, or we don’t write for traffic. Well, thats mostly true. What I post here is more just my own personal thoughts which, after a few seconds of thought, i decided to share with the world. However, I want to set a new goal for us here at Tealart. Looking through the stats we’ve yet to hit 2,000 unique visitors in a month. I want to do that.
So, my new goal is to start writing so we get 2,000 visits or more in a month. How? Get more google placements and link to other people so we get noticed. Thats bout it. Carry on.
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