Getting Caught Up
I'm still working on my moonlighting gig, but it is progressing well.
A couple of things that I noticed today that were a little disturbing, but not altogether unexpected, was that one of the Internet's three greatest resources, wikipedia has again come under fire for a non-thinking individual's act.
Defaming, even if meant as a joke(?) has no place in what has become an indispensable source of information for 'Netizens everywhere.
I just don't think that persons are responsible enough to always make accurate entries. Or knowledgeable enough. Or.....
The problem is vexing. How do you go about continuing to allow anyone with web access to make entries whilst preserving the integrity of the material?
I really do not see how these two entities(anonymity and integrity) can be preserved given wikipedia's relatively small staff of volunteers.
By the way, the other two greatest non-specific sources are, in my humble opinion, The Wayback Machine and the XML protocols which include such wonderful things as RSS/ATOM feeds, and a host of other dynamic web services.
Sorry, Google, but for my web use these other offerings get far more use.
The other thing that I found troubling is the tempest in a thimble 'war on X-mas' memes continuing life and spread. This is a dumb bomb.
I'm certainly no expert on X-tianity, but I have read enough about comparative religion to have feel reasonably assured of two things:
1) Dec. 25 was chosen by many earlier religions/cults predating Christianity as the day of their savior's birth. Easy cited examples would be Horus, Mithra, Dionysus and Krishna who were also reputed to be born on Dec. 25.
The date of Christ's birth was summarily cast in stone to assimilate Pagans into Christianity in 350CE by Pope Julius 1.
2) This should be of prime importance to Christians(that have actually read their holy book), is that Jesus' apostles wished his resurrection to be the sacred day. As for that whole Easter bunny(leveret = Pagan worship) bit coinciding with Christ's resurrection, that'll wait for another day ;)
A couple of things that I noticed today that were a little disturbing, but not altogether unexpected, was that one of the Internet's three greatest resources, wikipedia has again come under fire for a non-thinking individual's act.
Defaming, even if meant as a joke(?) has no place in what has become an indispensable source of information for 'Netizens everywhere.
I just don't think that persons are responsible enough to always make accurate entries. Or knowledgeable enough. Or.....
The problem is vexing. How do you go about continuing to allow anyone with web access to make entries whilst preserving the integrity of the material?
I really do not see how these two entities(anonymity and integrity) can be preserved given wikipedia's relatively small staff of volunteers.
By the way, the other two greatest non-specific sources are, in my humble opinion, The Wayback Machine and the XML protocols which include such wonderful things as RSS/ATOM feeds, and a host of other dynamic web services.
Sorry, Google, but for my web use these other offerings get far more use.
The other thing that I found troubling is the tempest in a thimble 'war on X-mas' memes continuing life and spread. This is a dumb bomb.
I'm certainly no expert on X-tianity, but I have read enough about comparative religion to have feel reasonably assured of two things:
1) Dec. 25 was chosen by many earlier religions/cults predating Christianity as the day of their savior's birth. Easy cited examples would be Horus, Mithra, Dionysus and Krishna who were also reputed to be born on Dec. 25.
The date of Christ's birth was summarily cast in stone to assimilate Pagans into Christianity in 350CE by Pope Julius 1.
2) This should be of prime importance to Christians(that have actually read their holy book), is that Jesus' apostles wished his resurrection to be the sacred day. As for that whole Easter bunny(leveret = Pagan worship) bit coinciding with Christ's resurrection, that'll wait for another day ;)
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