From 54a817d40de68ad0c76bfca353b28f8c1b4a36b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clinton Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:15:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] html updates --- Book List.html | 477 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- Code.html | 14 +- Lisp.html | 26 ++- Site Software.html | 137 +++++++++++++ Wisdom.html | 11 +- index.html | 9 +- 6 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Site Software.html diff --git a/Book List.html b/Book List.html index 9d2a04c..d268ab0 100644 --- a/Book List.html +++ b/Book List.html @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ + + @@ -14,149 +17,149 @@
-Marcus Aurelius +William Blake
-Meditations +The Four Zoas +
+
+Jerusalem
-William Blake +Kahlil Gibran
-The Four Zoas +A Tear and a Smile
-Jerusalem +The Prophet
-
-
-John Taylor Gatto +Sand and Foam
-
-
-Underground History of American Education +The Madman
-Kahlil Gibran +John Taylor Gatto
-A Tear and a Smile -
-
-The Prophet -
-
-Sand and Foam -
-
-The Madman +Underground History of American Education
-William James +Luke Rhinehardt
-The Varieties of Religious Experience -
-
-The PhD Octopus +The Dice Man
-Henry James +Neal Stephenson
-The Altar of the Dead +Snow Crash +
+
+Cryptonomicon
-Gregor Kiczales +Marcus Aurelius
-The Art of the Metaobject Protocol +Meditations
-Søren Kierkegaard +Søren Kierkegaard
-Sickness Unto Death +Sickness Unto Death
-Either/Or +Either/Or
-Thomas More +Thomas More
-Utopia +Utopia
-Friedrich Nietzsche +William James
-Beyond Good and Evil +The Varieties of Religious Experience +
+
+The PhD Octopus
+
+
-On the Geneaology of Morals +Henry James
+
+
-Ecce Homo +The Altar of the Dead
-Luke Rhinehardt +Gregor Kiczales
-The Dice Man +The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
-Neal Stephenson +Friedrich Nietzsche
-Snow Crash +Beyond Good and Evil +
+
+On the Geneaology of Morals
-Cryptonomicon +Ecce Homo
@@ -165,73 +168,38 @@

-Marcus Aurelius

- - - -

-Meditations

- -

Rating: •••••••••• (6) / Nonfiction

- -

I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic -philosophy. It is a fairly quick read; I read each of the twelve books -before sleeping over the course of two weeks. Toward the end of the -collection things get a bit topically repetetive (e.g. acting -according to the nature of man is reflected upon over and over), but -each repetition looks at the topic in a slightly different light. A -number of passages I found quite inspiring, and scratched them down in -my notebook to ponder further.

- - - -

William Blake

Blake is my favorite of the English poets. His unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality -complete archive of Blake's works online +complete archive of Blake's works online with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other things.

-

+

The Four Zoas

-

Rating: •••••••••• (10) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-

The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The +

The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The Four Zoas divide from Albion and rage through the ages of dismal woe to bring about the end of the cycle of Ulro and restore the cycle of Beulah.

-

-Jerusalem

- -

Rating: •••••••••• (10) / Fiction

-

The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.

+

+Jerusalem

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

+

The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.

-

-John Taylor Gatto

-

Former teacher and now author-activist.

-

-Underground History of American Education

-

Rating: •••••••••• (9) / Nonfiction

- -

An interesting underground history of the American education -system. Available -online for free.

- - - -

+

Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not @@ -244,123 +212,163 @@ paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more, naturally).

-

+

A Tear and a Smile

-

Rating: •••••••••• (3) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-

One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like A -Tear and a Smile excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice").

+

One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like A +Tear and a Smile excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice").

-

+ +

The Prophet

-

Rating: •••••••••• (9) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

+ -

+

Sand and Foam

-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

An interesting little book of aphorisms.

-

+ +

The Madman

-

Rating: •••••••••• (8) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-

-William James

+

+John Taylor Gatto

+

Former teacher and now author-activist.

-

-The Varieties of Religious Experience

+

+Underground History of American Education

-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Nonfiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

-

A partially finished extended summary

+

An interesting underground history of the American education +system. Available +online for free.

-

-The PhD Octopus

-

Nonfiction

-
-

-America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things -in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable -unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which -bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate. It seems to me high -time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye -upon this decidedly grotesque tendency. Other nations suffer terribly -from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest?

+

+Luke Rhinehardt

-
-

Full Text

+

+The Dice Man

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-

-Henry James

+

<quote> +And it's his illusions about what +constitutes the real world which are +inhibiting him... +His reality, his reason, his society +...these are what must be destroyed +</quote>

-

The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read: -one) of his books, but what I did was decent.

+

A quotation from one of my favorite metal songs inspired me to grab +this book; at worst it would be a waste of time. Much reward was found +in this random stab in the dark. The book is framed as an +autobiography of the author as a psychoanalyst, and his progression +through life as a Dice Man after deciding to live his life through +random chance.

-

-The Altar of the Dead

+

The style, plot, and content are equally neurotic; part comedy, part +attack on psychoanalysis, and part deep philosophy. It was often +difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time.

-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Fiction

-

A short novella about a man who maintained an altar in a church -for all of his lost loved ones on the surface, but something a bit -more beneath.

+

+Neal Stephenson

-

-Gregor Kiczales

+

+Snow Crash

-

-The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-

Rating: •••••••••• (10) / Nonfiction

+

As one must read the Bible to understand English literature, so one +must read Snow Crash today to be a nerd. In the realm of modern pop +fiction this is one of the better books I've read; it was devoured in +a mere four nights. Neal Stepheson may not be Milton, but he does come +up with enganging tales. Snow Crash has a nice undertone of (quite +accurate) political and social commentary that makes it worth reading +as more than mere cyberpunk fiction.

-

AMOP is useful as a reference to the CLOS MOP (although less so with -the online MOP spec), but the true value of the book lies in the first -half of the book. It presents the design of the CLOS MOP through a -series of revisions that fix limitations of earlier implementations -and gradually work toward a generic and well designed MOP for -CLOS. Through that process one is made more aware of a few general -object protocol design skills, and gains insight into how to cleanly -make mapping decisions customizable.

+

+Cryptonomicon

+ +

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

+ +

I read Cryptonomicon when it was new, and at the time I thought it was +good. It could have lost a hundred or so pages without detracting from +the plot, but it was easy reading and didn't take very long to +finish. The story was enganging, and the continual switching between +the 1940s and present day slowly unravelled the tale in a nice way.

+ +

I'd still have to recommend Snow Crash if one wished to read only one +Stephenson novel.

+ -

+ + +

+Marcus Aurelius

+ + + +

+Meditations

+ +

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

+ +

I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic +philosophy. It is a fairly quick read; I read each of the twelve books +before sleeping over the course of two weeks. Toward the end of the +collection things get a bit topically repetetive (e.g. acting +according to the nature of man is reflected upon over and over), but +each repetition looks at the topic in a slightly different light. A +number of passages I found quite inspiring, and scratched them down in +my notebook to ponder further.

+ + + + +

Søren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused disagreeable.

-

+

Sickness Unto Death

-

Rating: •••••••••• (10) / Nonfiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

I purchased this when I was looking through books at a store after being unable to find the book I really wanted, and I must say that it @@ -373,10 +381,11 @@ reflected in every aspect of the work, and the method of presentation forces reflection.

-

+ +

Either/Or

-

Rating: •••••••••• (10) / Nonfiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

Composed of two portions, Either/Or is a rather lengthy but rewarding read. The first book is a series of essays and a diary of a @@ -386,15 +395,16 @@ conflict between the views.

-

+ +

Thomas More

-

+

Utopia

-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

I read most of Utopia in high school with the TI-89 ebook reader, but the way the book was split up made it a bit difficult to grasp the @@ -407,118 +417,129 @@ social customs.

-

-Friedrich Nietzsche

-

A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good secular -counterpart to Kierkegaard's theistic philosophy. Nietzsche's -polemical works raise important questions for anyone who reads works -on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation -by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay) -only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the -polemic.

+

+William James

-

-Beyond Good and Evil

-

Rating: •••••••••• (8) / Nonfiction

-

A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically -pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in Thus Spoke -Zarathustra in the negative form. The final chapters are very -important (not to detract from the value of the rest of the work) if -one wishes to understand On the Genealogy of Morals.

+

+The Varieties of Religious Experience

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

-

-On the Geneaology of Morals

+

A partially finished extended summary

-

Rating: •••••••••• (9) / Nonfiction

-

On the Geneaology of Morals is a wonderful book of three -polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the -blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by -these valuations unknowingly.

+

+The PhD Octopus

-

-Ecce Homo

+
+

/ Nonfiction

+
-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Nonfiction

+

<quote> +America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things +in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable +unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which +bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate. It seems to me high +time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye +upon this decidedly grotesque tendency. Other nations suffer terribly +from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest? +</quote>

-

Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's very strange autobiography and -explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have -used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a -catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as -Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works.

+

Full Text

-

-Luke Rhinehardt

+

+Henry James

+

The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read: +one) of his books, but what I did was decent.

-

-The Dice Man

+

+The Altar of the Dead

-

Rating: •••••••••• (7) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Fiction

-
-

-And it's his illusions about what -constitutes the real world which are -inhibiting him... -His reality, his reason, his society -...these are what must be destroyed

+

A short novella about a man who maintained an altar in a church +for all of his lost loved ones on the surface, but something a bit +more beneath.

-
-

A quotation from one of my favorite metal songs inspired me to grab -this book; at worst it would be a waste of time. Much reward was found -in this random stab in the dark. The book is framed as an -autobiography of the author as a psychoanalyst, and his progression -through life as a Dice Man after deciding to live his life through -random chance.

-

The style, plot, and content are equally neurotic; part comedy, part -attack on psychoanalysis, and part deep philosophy. It was often -difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time.

+

+Gregor Kiczales

-

-Neal Stephenson

+ +

+The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

+ +

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

+ +

AMOP is useful as a reference to the CLOS MOP (although less so with +the online MOP spec), but the true value of the book lies in the first +half of the book. It presents the design of the CLOS MOP through a +series of revisions that fix limitations of earlier implementations +and gradually work toward a generic and well designed MOP for +CLOS. Through that process one is made more aware of a few general +object protocol design skills, and gains insight into how to cleanly +make mapping decisions customizable.

+ + + + +

+Friedrich Nietzsche

+ +

A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good secular +counterpart to Kierkegaard's theistic philosophy. Nietzsche's +polemical works raise important questions for anyone who reads works +on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation +by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay) +only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the +polemic.

+ +

+Beyond Good and Evil

+ +

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

+ +

A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically +pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in Thus Spoke +Zarathustra in the negative form. The final chapters are very +important (not to detract from the value of the rest of the work) if +one wishes to understand On the Genealogy of Morals.

-Snow Crash

+On the Geneaology of Morals -

Rating: •••••••••• (9) / Fiction

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

-

As one must read the Bible to understand English literature, so one -must read Snow Crash today to be a nerd. In the realm of modern pop -fiction this is one of the better books I've read; it was devoured in -a mere four nights. Neal Stepheson may not be Milton, but he does come -up with enganging tales. Snow Crash has a nice undertone of (quite -accurate) political and social commentary that makes it worth reading -as more than mere cyberpunk fiction.

+

On the Geneaology of Morals is a wonderful book of three +polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the +blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by +these valuations unknowingly.

-

-Cryptonomicon

-

Rating: •••••••••• (8) / Fiction

+

+Ecce Homo

-

I read Cryptonomicon when it was new, and at the time I thought it was -good. It could have lost a hundred or so pages without detracting from -the plot, but it was easy reading and didn't take very long to -finish. The story was enganging, and the continual switching between -the 1940s and present day slowly unravelled the tale in a nice way.

+

Rating: •••••••••• / Nonfiction

-

I'd still have to recommend Snow Crash if one wished to read only one -Stephenson novel.

+

Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's very strange autobiography and +explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have +used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a +catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as +Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works.

@@ -548,11 +569,9 @@ Stephenson novel.

-

So play today - Go make your hay beneath a warm sun shining - But bear in mind one day you'll find the silver cloud's dark lining +

Jessie: i stuck the phone antenna up the dogs nose and he ignored me

Last Modified: - September 23, 2008

+ September 28, 2008

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-Golgonooza

+Golgonooza

Fourfold the Sons of Los in their divisions: and fourfold.
@@ -123,12 +126,11 @@ hacky as Hell, but the XHTML genera

-

Ruled by the ebb of my oceans - Slaves to the dusk and the dawn - Your petri dish civilisations - Are buried and born +

sup4hleet: My mgr had a staff meeting before we hired our first chick +sup4hleet: he was like "We're diversifying, so no more searching for porn." +sup4hleet: Then the chick got hired and she browsed porn all the time.

Last Modified: - July 29, 2008

+ September 28, 2008

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-Scheme Constraints Window Manager +Site Software +
+
+Scheme Constraints Window Manager
-Metaobject Protocols +Metaobject Protocols
-UCW Structural Notes +UCW Structural Notes
@@ -33,18 +39,24 @@ libraries for doing almost anything in Common Lisp. It's like using perl, but with well designed libraries and readable applications.

+Site Software

+ +

A bit of Emacs-Lisp and Common Lisp keep this site running.

+ + +

Scheme Constraints Window Manager

Some work I have done on SCWM.

-

+

Metaobject Protocols

Notes for a short (fifteen minute) presentation on MOPs.

-

+

UCW Structural Notes

Notes on the structure of the ucw_dev branch of UnCommon Web. The @@ -78,9 +90,9 @@ a few notes after reading through it.

-

<captain_krunk> ntk is currently using "telnet fyodor 25" to send email +

Jessie: i stuck the phone antenna up the dogs nose and he ignored me

Last Modified: - March 13, 2008

+ September 28, 2008

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Site Software

+
+
+
+Basic Setup +
+
+Scripts +
+
+
+
+Book Database +
+
+RSS Feed +
+
+
+
+License +
+
+
+ + +

+Basic Setup

+ +

I work on the static content of the site using Emacs Muse. My muse +configuration is pretty long and available in my +site-emacs repository. The site itself exists in a darcs repository +which is a fork of the source repository I edit locally—the source +repository contains muse/image files while the site repository +contains html updates as a separate series of patches.

+ +

This provides a very nice editing environment and makes publishing +fairly easy—I push edits from my laptop to my workstation and then +off to HCoop with the html updates. Almost no effort is spent dealing +with some dumb web interface or other pointless things making it much +easier for me to just write things and toss them up onto the web.

+ + +

+Scripts

+ +

There are a few scripts and templates in the darcsweb::site-support +repository that I use to update the +site. darcsweb::site-support/update.sh automates the process of +sending patches off to the server via afs.

+ +

+Book Database

+ +

Book List is autogenerated by darcsweb::site-support/books.lisp which +reads a template and a small sexp database of book entries and spits +out a muse file which is not kept under VC. This works well for me +currently, but I intend to eventually upgrade this simple system to an +Elephant object database with a CLIM frontend for editing +entries. I'll probably end up writing a minimal database manager for +the sexp based system first.

+ + +

+RSS Feed

+ +

The site rss feed is generated by darcsweb::site-support/rss.lisp. It +fetches the darcs xml changelog for interesting files and then spits +out a tolerable feed with automagically generated links from *.muse to +*.html. A dumped binary is run from a darcs hook on the main +repository that handily updates the feed whenever I commit.

+ +

apply posthook update-site-rss +apply run-posthook

+ +

Boring old Apache is used to serve up the generated feed. The feed +stays updated when I update, and Apache deals with properly letting +readers know when the file last changed and whatnot.

+ + + +

+License

+ +

All of the scripts used to generate the site are in the public domain +unless otherwise mentioned in the files themselves. To use them +anywhere else would require modification, but a few chunks of code +could be generally useful for other things.

+ + + + +

+ + Valid XHTML 1.0! + + [ Viewable With Any Browser + ] + + [ Powered by Debian ] + + + [ Hosted by HCoop] + + + + [ FSF Associate Member ] + +

+ +

<captain_krunk> ntk is currently using "telnet fyodor 25" to send email +

+

Last Modified: + September 28, 2008

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He never failed to drive correctly,
And his arrows went straight for the target
+


-I am not used to driving for small men. May I be excused?'

+

I am not used to driving for small men. May I be excused?'

"Even a charioteer is ashamed to be in league with an archer. When doing so means catching enough birds to pile up like a mountain, he would still rather not do it. What can one do about those who bend @@ -206,9 +210,10 @@ increaseth sorrow.

-

<captain_krunk> ntk is currently using "telnet fyodor 25" to send email +

It's no contest, but we still race there + Like the saintly tortoise and the godless hare

Last Modified: - March 13, 2008

+ September 28, 2008

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such there is a handy updates feed courtesy of a small Lisp program I wrote and darcs.

+

A more detailed description of my setup is available.

+ @@ -180,9 +182,12 @@ wrote and darcs.

-

No, there's nothing here about X, so be quiet. +

And did those feet in ancient time +Walk upon England's mountains green? +And was the holy Lamb of God +On England's pleasant pastures seen?

Last Modified: - September 26, 2008

+ September 28, 2008

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