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Mechanical diggers

Passion, lust, addiction, and obsession are often maligned, relegated to the vices (as if they haven’t suffered enough bad press already), objurgated by the puritanical, sidelined by the apathetic. But a world devoid of, for example, obsession, would be a very dull world indeed. Obsession is frequently the principal ingredient of success, the primordial spirit […]

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In praise of chaos

I’m not an especially organised soul. That’s not a confession. Confession implies guilt, and I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it. For years now (perhaps millennia?) we’ve been urged — oftentimes with near religious fervour — to get organised, to be more organised. Proponents and proselytisers of the be more organised movement would […]

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FarceBook

I’m finally leaving FaceBook. My account is queued for deletion on March 3. Why they can’t just delete it immediately, I have no idea. A recent change to FaceBook’s TOS (Terms of Service) was the final straw. I’m not going to rehash it all here. It has been documented in numerous other places. I think […]

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