Tom Morris: 2006-12-08

2006.12.08

Tristan Nitot has the map of Firefox adoption. Britain is at 15.8%. Yeah, that sucks. Britain really isn't ready for, err, innovation, security and extensibility. We far prefer to have shitty software so that we can complain about it when it doesn't work. That said, I'd like to see this map with personal and business percentages added. Internet Explorer seems to be mostly a business problem rather than a home user problem where switching costs are lower. The Firefox folks should send me a big stash of Firefox CDs and I'll be happy to distribute them to people. 2006-12-08T12:27:49Z

Father Dan has an amusing post about a pony doll with a great warning. 2006-12-08T12:07:04Z

The Office Open XML format has been approved by ECMA. Oh boy, the day when we can run XSLT over Office files will be cool. 2006-12-08T10:34:57Z

Want to become an htaccess master? Read this. 2006-12-08T10:26:13Z

There's an interesting discussion over at Shawn Anthony's place about liberal Christianity - specifically, it's utter inanity. 2006-12-08T10:19:23Z

James Randi has some real cranky stuff this week - a woman who sells bottled water with "sound essences", bad martial arts, James Van Praagh communicating with the spirit of Marilyn Monroe through her hair curlers, Scientologists and the London coppers, and the Catholic Church has declared St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet. 2006-12-08T10:03:16Z

Yesterday, the BBC uncovered a Metropolitan Police report which states the bleeding obvious: knife amnesties don't work. 2006-12-08T09:48:50Z

Tom Coates has found this unintentionally funny website called Oxbridgelife. 2006-12-08T09:11:53Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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