Tom Morris: 2007-07-26

2007.07.26

1Passwd is a nifty password manager that works across multiple browsers on the Mac, ties into Keychain, .Mac (if you use that) and can manage multiple identities. Until OpenID becomes the norm, it's a fairly nifty solution. It's currently $10 off at maczot. 2007-07-26T09:28:34Z

Tim Bray points to this crazy rant which argues that XML causes global warming. 2007-07-26T08:39:52Z

Drop outs on the rise 2007-07-26T10:53:38Z

BBC News report that one-in-five students drop out from their university courses. This does not surprise me, and, as someone who has dropped out, and then subsequently went on to get a degree, I do not think that drop-outs are necessarily a bad idea.

I am extremely glad that I dropped out. Everything about my life has improved since doing so. It is sometimes an extremely positive thing. If you are doing something which you dislike, stopping it is a good thing.

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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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