Jim Cheetham - Ceci n'est pas une page d'accueil

Ceci n'est pas une page d'accueil


Stick that in your		and smoke it!

Caveat Depascor

A man on tiptoe
	Can't walk easily.
The kind of person who strides on ahead is bound to tire.
The kind of person who always insists on his way of seeing things can never learn anything from anyone.
Those who always want to be seen will never help others to be.
The showman is never secretly respected by anyone.
People like these, say the Wise Ones are as useless as the left-over food at a feast:
No true follower can relate to them.
Tao Te Ching, Chapter twenty-four.

Tao Te Ching
Latine
Bio
Kites
Digital Life
Meme
PGP
Magritte

Ecletic is the word. I'm sure there are others.

These are the pages of Jim Cheetham, his ongoing mission to lower the signal-to-noise ratio on the Internet in all its forms (or is that to raise the noise-to-signal ratio? Answers on a postcard only).

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Only some of the information here is serious. The rest is not actively funny. You have to have a pretty strange sense of humour to appreciate most of my ravings. If all you have is a sense of humor, you'll be entertained by much less. Remember Theodore Sturgeon, who would have said, had he the chance, "Ninety percent of the World Wide Web is crud. But then, ninety percent of everything is crud." However, I guess that he knew the difference between sarcasm and scepticism, neither of which are anything to do with disbelief or irrationality (another slice of pi, vicar?)

You have your caveat, now browse on. The Tao Te Ching link is about some of the many translations of this classic work, not its messages or meanings. The Latine page clues you up on modern usage of this ancient language, but its all Greek to me. If you fly kites, you'll be used to the sort of kite page found on the Internet, and this is little different. However, I haven't yet found a nicer collection of night flying pictures than the ones I've taken myself.

:-)

Digital Life is the name of the premier Internet consultancy in Guernsey (I have to say that, I'm one of the Directors), and First.Site is the premier Web Design agent for the same reasons, with a very minimalist web site at present.

You know that a biological virus acts upon materials made of genes? Well, Richard Dawkins likes memes, which can be called ideas. Now, what sort of virus would act upon a meme? Once you've got over that shock, try another - René Magritte, an artist who had difficulty with reality - or perhaps he was the only one to figure it out, and the rest of us are the ones with the problem. And for a good look at someone with a problem, I have a short bio page lurking here. Avoid it to your gain!

And what can I say about PGP besides "USE IT!"? There could be no Big Brother if we all used things like this, or if George Orwell had never written 1984. Go figure.

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