systemreboot – blog
On the Power Crisis
Feb 13, 2012
Now, unless people really start understanding the underlying environmental issues, and take action, nothing is going to happen. It is time to be self-reliant, find our backbones, and get started shaping our own futures. A much better idea than depending on spineless governments, methinks.
Tags: musing
Stallman at PSG Tech
Feb 7, 2012
Stallman was here in college today. Having watched many videos of his speeches from the Internet, and having already been involved with the Free Software Movement, I didn't really have too much new stuff to learn from his speech. But, needless to say, getting to see the man in person, and actually attend one of his speeches, was not an experience I was going to miss out on.
Tags: freesoftware
Google and the Classroom
Aug 21, 2011
It is true the average classroom is a really boring place to be in especially when the teacher is unable to effectively deliver the content. And when students find that their questions don't get satisfactory replies, they lose interest and enthusiasm. But there is also another important factor involved - the Internet.
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No End to This
May 18, 2011
One generation passes and another comes. And another… And another… Each more discontent with the ways of their fathers… For fathers and sons tend to work that way…
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The Dimension of Time
Feb 14, 2011
One has had the strangest ideas in the past, one still has strange ideas in the present, and one surely will have stranger ideas in the future.
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Memory
Jan 30, 2011
We ourselves grow older because every experience we have had has left us changed. We have been modified. We are not our old selfs anymore. For the better or for the worse, we have changed.
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Endless Recursion
Jan 16, 2011
Either you see it as the absolute infinity, where "the real truth" is infinite-dimensional and beyond one's comprehension. Or the infinity as in undefined, where something as "the real truth" does not exist.
Tags: musing
Of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Jan 11, 2011
…prophecies, forecasts and predictions, like measurements, are only self-fulfilling and are not pictures of "the real truth"… And for that matter, is there a "real truth"?
Tags: musing
Ohm's Law and its Validity
Jan 4, 2011
…that a luminous body such as a candle flame emits light only because there are eyes to see it! And sea waves striking the shore produce sound only because there are ears to hear it!
Tags: musing
Is There A Right Answer?
Dec 5, 2010
One should never let one's creativity be bridled and bitted by rules and norms. One should be free. After all, we are not number crunching machines.
Tags: musing