Going to try a bit of an experiment, using +Daniel Treadwell's WordPress plugin. I'm going to write here, using the Google+ tools and such, and then let it cross-post to my blog…effectively, going to try using Google+ as my blogging engine for a bit.
We'll see how this goes. Would love feedback if you have any.
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refix”>+Daniel Treadwell's Google+ to WordPress plugin. Let's see how this works.
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Wish the light had been better, but for a from-the-hip shot with no real prep, I like it.
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Here's a much better take on my G+ post from last week re: people complaining about Apple. +Harry McCracken says it better than I did:
"If you think people who use Apple products are prisoners, you’re essentially accusing them of being too stupid to make their own decisions. At least Stallman explicitly calls them fools! Raymond, with his pretty-window-treatment metaphor, apparently thinks Apple users are style-obsessed fetishists, too dim to make the right purchasing decisions. "
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A Strange Sort of Prison, a Strange Sort of Freedom
Free software advocate and GNU creator Richard Stallman has blogged that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone. That's, um, gauche. But it's not why I bring up his post. He also calls Jobs "the pioneer of the …
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Emptiness is impermanence, it is change.
We should not complain about impermanence,
because without impermanence, nothing is possible.
I am not a spiritual person. I do not believe in a God, or a spirit, or an afterlife. But I can see the beauty and truth in the above Buddhist quote, and I feel its weight. It is incredible to me how emotional I have been tonight after learning about the death of Steve Jobs. It is fortunate for the 21st century that we had Steve as long as we did, but I will not complain about impermanence. It is what allows the future to happen.
Thanks for showing us your vision of the future, Steve. I look forward to seeing what is possible next.
