From you
        I don't want anything new
        no more gifts
        nor the scent of landscapes
        rising to fill us,
        no bouquets of insight
        left by my head
        in the tenderness of morning,

        no intoxication
        of thoughts that open horizons
        where rooms are low,
        nor the sever of spring
        under the grid of old words
        that has set on our skin,
        nor my favorite blue,
        the cobalt
        colour of silence.

        No.
        All I want
        is your two hands
        pulsing in mine,
        the two of us
        back in a circle
        round our love.

                                        -- John O'Donohue

Thee, now and always.

        Without regard for
        space and time; in memory
        heart stands yet alone

        Open heart; light of
        hope, as of life -- no word. One
        ever standing; without

                                        -- 25-30 August 2010

Attention?

Go deo, a Shearc.

I just received mail notification that a fellow user has bought me a gift subscription to slashdot. I'm already friends/fans with the person but his email address isn't visible so I can't thank the person off-/. (wimp, change your privacy settings and deal with the spam! :P )
 
Not sure what I did to deserve it, but I thank you!
 

Beannachtaí leat, anois agus go deo. Tá mo chroí agat i gcónaí.

...and what is, and what may be. No surrender. East?

Front page article that looks to be interesting reading.

I just saw that Martin Gardner died a week ago this past Saturday. Slashdot covered the story last Sunday.

I read his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American every month for many years, and own several of his books. He will be missed.

One of my early programming experiences was inspired by his column about John Horton Conway's game of Life. I coded it in Fortran for a Burroughs B-1700 (IIRC) in 1975, for my high school programming class. We wrote our programs on punch cards, and the teacher took them to the computer at city hall to run. I had coded what I thought to be a modest twenty-five by twenty-five cell array, for a run of fifty iterations. I learned the next day that I had brought the city computer to its knees, forcing a hard restart. I did not know at the time that Fortran stored its arrays in column-major order; apparently the machine had been thrashing its minuscule memory something fierce. :-). Of course, I could probably get arrested for that now.

Thanks, Martin, for many hours of enjoyment and great memories.

For this day...

        Wanna cry for you
        Would it do any good?
        If I rained for you
        It would just be water
        And the night's with you
        And the storm's in your head
        And you're down and you're down
        And I can't lift you

        I'm powerless to change your world
        I'm powerless to stop the hurt

        I'll give you my heart, give you my shoulder
        Give you my heart, give you my shoulder

        Wanna run for you
        Would it do any good?
        If I flew for you
        You would still be standing
        And it's hard watching
        'cause I'm part of you
        And it's hard not to
        Not to know what I can do

        I'm powerless to change your world
        I'm powerless to stop the hurt
        I'm trying hard to be your tower of strength
        I'm trying hard to bring you back to joy

        I'll give you my heart, give you my shoulder
        Give you my heart, give you my shoulder

        When the night just cuts you through
        And the dream is lost to you
        When you're worried and confused
        I will give you my heart give you my shoulder

                        -- Heather Nova

...that changed my life - then, now, always.

Short Flash vid...
http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1273610622233RA56

Canadian pre-orders started today.

64 GB WiFi version ordered, should be here by May 28. No need for the 3G version, I can tether with MyWi on the iPhone.

My dad picked up the similar model on a trip to the US last week. Was playing with it on the weekend, awesome device. Perhaps not magical but still most impressive.

FAIL! :(

Anyone have any invites? (Flashback to trying to get a GMail invite.)

1. I want a WYSIWYG HTML5 editor the uses two CSS files (one for print format and one for flow format) and a simple tar.gz or zip file to hold the HTML, images, and videos.
2. I want XMPP and identity in my browser.
3. I want NOT to have to race Slashdot's loading of more articles when I got to the bottom of my journal page in order to click "Write in journal."

Thank you.

Apparently, earthquakes cause stupidity. No, really.

Supposed "sorceror" may not be beheaded tomorrow. Boggles the mind.

In other news, a Saudi judge has issued an arrest warrant for one "Dread Pirate Roberts", aka "Westley", aka "Farm Boy" on charges of piracy, after catching a documentary on late night TV.