Monthly Archives: December 2010

Just like that

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In 2010

I don’t typically feel the need to write New Year’s reflections, or make predictions about the future.  Not usually.  However, I have been thinking about 2010 over the holidays, and trying to distill for myself some of what was significant. My blog’s readership increased by a factor of 10 in 2010, thanks in no small part [...]
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The humble bee

While reading George MacDonald’s “At the Back of the North Wind” this afternoon, I was forced to halt my reading in order that I might satisfy an etymological question raised by the text.  At one point, while riding a top a horse led by his father through London, Diamond (the story’s main character) sees a [...]
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Of passion and suffering

I wanted to lay two posts beside one another for you, two posts written by two James.  The first is by James Shelley, and is about the real meaning of passion, as rooted in suffering: The word passion comes from the Latin passio, which implied suffering and the endurance of hardship. To be passionate, truly passionate, [...]
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Flight of the Navigator

Mozilla is showcasing our Flight of the Navigator (FOTN) demo, and I wanted to tell you a little bit about it.  FOTN takes advantage of many of the new and improved features of Firefox 4, and is an example of the kind of things you can do with HTML5, WebGL, web audio, and faster JavaScript. The [...]
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The Storyteller

A few weeks ago, while doing some research for a demo, I came across The Storyteller series on YouTube.  I have a vague memory of watching it when I was young, but had completely forgotten until I started watching again.  I have since watched most of them, and tonight watched my favourite thus far, “The [...]
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