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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Review by Christopher Bradley
(c)2004

The Great Gatsby is a Cindarella story gone wrong told in the tail end of the Great Depression just after world war two. The story begins with the introduction of a young Bachelor named Nick who moves in to live in and amongst the rich on Long Island Sound. He finds himself in the midst of all forms of celebrity and debutante in the infamous parties held in Gatsby’s house.

It is an interesting note, that Gatsby, while suspected of taking large sums of Nazi money to support these activities here in the united states, was still particularly fond of books, having a large collection in a personal library. This is the one element that begins to take shape to define him as more than a man to be scrutinized, as Nick attempts to do. Nick is curious to know if Gatsby really was an Oxford scholar.

A love story begins to develop between Gatsby and a woman named Daisy, or should we say every man and Daisy. She is the most desireable woman among those in the Sound, and she is purported to have married for money rather than love.

There are many drunken revelries, and a few relaxations in the shade of Gatsby’s house, where his lawn is perfectly cut, near the pool, which had never been used that summer.
There are complexities that defy the human imagination at some points, and the writing is so smooth and effortless that if you are in the quiet, the storytelling seems like watching television.

The book was incredible and I will save the color and irridescence of the whole conclusion of the story for you to find out for yourself, how the crescendo blessess us with a damning truth.

Bring forth the pastels, the paisley’s and the pinstripes, we’re going to town.

Here’s a piece I’m glad to show also - I worked on this poetry wikia for a long time. Looks like someone has gone and installed a new skin for it and is making it look real nice. Either that or I’ve got beer goggles. And I don’t have beer goggles.

http://poetry.wikia.com/wiki/Atlantis_Vertigo
This is like so cool to see my work still intact out there. And I managed to sell another book last month bringing the grand total international number to 4. I am proud of myself anyway. There are now 25 print copies available in the world making my book that much more rare and valuable to collectors. My dad always said - write a book - stay poor - get hit by a bus - and watch your kids cash in from upstairs. Its morbid… but its true.

-Chris Bradley

It’s rare that anything this cool happens to me, that I feel like blogging about it, and spending some real time on explaining it all.

Yesterday, a friend of mine decided to buy a laptop. Not just any laptop, but a spec perfect laptop for the applications that she needs, and today, I had an opportunity to outrig the thing to my own personal specifications for her.

My first step was setting up her e-mail and IM accounts, that was easy enough, if I could have remembered that gmail now uses 995 for pop (secure pop). In any case - getting past that - the next phase was experimenting with the vino clients in Linux on my PC’s and seeing if I could find something comparable for windows. Because I wanted to be able to take control of the mouse and patch things up if she had troubles with the system, which inevitably she will.

A little bit of history on my PC’s. I bought them both this year. One is slightly older than the other, but they have about the same specs as this one. They are an e-machine and a compaq. The compaq even has nifty compact flash slots so I can use it with my digital camera Sandisk memory chips and move around 250 photos with a point and click.

Both of my PC’s run Linux now. It is just more flexible and runs faster with the customizations built into the version I use (frugalware .7). Frugalware uses the pacman package manager from arch linux and adopts a middle of the road package management slack philosophy - which is that it is easy to use with pacman - but available to have posix compilations. I still have to read up on posix btw.

Up until this Acer pc - I’ve had nothing but headaches with wifi. But literally with Windows Vista Basic installed (which is a perfect match for the 512MB ram) it was just a point and click at the connect frame - and I connected directly to my wireless Linksys WRT54g router. The technology on the antenna side (built into the computer) is called 802.11g (I believe - don’t want to mistype).

Anyway - once all the pc’s were connected on the router, at their various addresses 192.168.1.101, 102, and 103 respectively, all I had to do was search for and install TightVNC for Windows - (both server and client) and I am able to either view the windows desktop remotely, and manipulate it, or to view my Linux desktops upstairs remotely from the kitchen.

I can’t tell you what a joy its been to be free of my upper room scenario and actually be around people and life for a day. I made cheese sandwiches for lunch here in the kitchen and had a couple of hard boiled eggs while hanging out in America - and I’ve been listening to .ogg files that I ripped from my certified collection of CD’s all day. Some of the artists I listened to included David Bowie, Yellow Card. Poe, Depeche Mode, and Bob Marley. I even threw in the second half of the musical rent early this morning for good measure.

In essense, I’m saying that the life on IRC and the life in reality is really a pleasant mix. And I didn’t feel like I was trapped in any one particular place. I plan to buy one of these neat little guys as soon as is earthly possible.

That way the desktops can sit on the desk, and I can go where I please. And the virtual servers out there in lala land can keep virtual serving.

Smile, there aren’t many days when you can actually call it a day and say, man, I really enjoyed this.

Talk to you soon,

-Christopher J. Bradley

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It seems MSFT didn’t forget about us after all. I was so glad when I googled  this and saw that our advertisement stands.

Cool

Anyway -

Here’s the body of the ad:

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We are starting off fresh in the Microsoft Partner Program, and have a lot to learn from Microsoft and its partner organizations. We hope we can help you as much as you are helping us.

ChrisBradley says:on Wed 22 August 2007 14:00

re: Open Source at Microsoft

I think this is a great move in the right direction for Microsoft. I have always been a great supporter of Open Source Software. As one of the few purchasers of Vista in this category, I have to say I am still impressed with the software. And also, especially with the move to integrate Windows Media Player with Firefox. Good Work Guys. Now we have to get you on top of Wikis…

ChrisBradley says:on Wed 22 August 2007 14:07

re: Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire

On the Metal - I haven’t used MS Virtual Machine much, except at the beginning with 2004. I am impressed that you have released a 2007 version, and I intend to practice with that a bit in the coming days. The primary virtual machine program I used under vista due to Memory Constraints and other virtualization issues was called Virtual Box by Innotek. I also wrote an interview called http://pearpcfiles.blogspot.com which outlined the emergence of MAC OS X being able to run on PC’s. Originally I ran it under Linux but later found that innovations enabled the emulator to run it under windows. With improvements in Processor and Memory, it looks like it will be a real possibility to cross all platform boundaries in 1 - 2 years. I hope my thoughts have been helpful. Man, would I love to have a job working with this stuff in realtime…

Dear Mr. Lessig,

It appalls me to think that we might even consider electing a white woman from the South to the office of president of the United States. It would be like instituting the same sort of gentrification and slavery re-enactment of pre-civil war decision making. She is not black, the black people of the world should not support her. She is nothing but an Uncle Tom to these people. and has no place in politics for having claimed she is Black or in any way controls the Black Vote.
Here’s something else to consider. I am not black and would prefer to see Barack Obama as president. Here’s why: He’s a man, he’s from the Chicago area political machine, and knows what it takes to call shots, and he will work with high technologies people to make a difference. It is proven, just by things like his “Ring Tone” campaign, which while not that technically advanced, is quite complex, and proves his interest in at least joking around with Netizens.
Hillary Clinton does not care about the net, she is from the old school, the kind of Old School white mafia that had Kennedy Killed out of spite, and I don’t care much for the spam she keeps sending to my e-mail either. Its a complete disrespect to all of us, especially when she responds to few or none of her New York constituents, except when elections are at stake.
Personally I hope this 2k8 election swallows her whole.

Christopher J. Bradley
NEW YORKER.

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People are suddenly getting afraid of their own words…

It never ceases to amaze me that when you publish people’s comments, they start to try to change the facts.  As if you can lie to God and get away with it.

I’m not going to say I’m without sin, but geez…

I’m beginning to think we’ve got some full blown Imperial Darkness shading things in some people’s recent changes bins.

Take a shower christel, you’re going to need one when you get out of rehab too.

Go get ‘em kids. This is an example of the types of people linking to Christel’s blog.

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seanwhitton.com

Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Terrorists are not evil, terrorism is

There are many ways of approaching the problem of good and evil philosophically and what they actually are - this very fact can be used as an argument for some of these views. It has been debated back and forth over the years but the vast majority of people still hold a view somewhere in between the most common and less arguable for any length of time views I will now present. Firstly, there is the religious view: there are reasons why debate of this does not last very long. The idea that a divine being superimposes values upon the world that we can choose to follow or not. The other is the simple idea of complete objectivity, rendering moral values just opinions. This makes a lot of sense: people follow their own morals because they wish to remain happy by sticking with what they are used to and what it ingrained into them; it is human nature for the vast majority of people. Morals like this are great when they are rationally defined and developed, but this is often not so. The above mixed view now comes into play, whereby most people seem to think that there are moral aspects that are just there even if they are not religious or do not care about it, giving “well… it’s just wrong“.

Following the objective approach, I have deduced that people cannot normally be applied the description of evil. This is because it is, I believe, *extremely* rare to actually find a truly evil person. By this I mean way beyond what most people would think, when they set aside their moral values about, say, the death penalty for exceptions such as Hitler, which in my opinion is fundamentally wrong. Even a truly evil one I would treat the same, if I actually have the ability to judge. So, here I post the argument of misguidance, that they have made some wrong choices in my view: they are still doing what is right in their mind and thus they are not evil and the idea of punishment remains pointless, so prison should only be for protection and reformation rather than retribution and perhaps deterrence. This argument allows for a great deal of forgiveness and many chances, helping people rather than taking any form of revenge. It flies out of the window when you consider that according to causality we are not going to literally change anything at all because everything will happen in one prescribed way in this universe.

Thus I come onto my main argument for this essay, terrorism and terrorists. I think we can safely assume that most of the time terrorists do honestly believe they are doing the right thing. One should not take everything one reads in the press for granted but based on the research that has been done the fragile human mind can be easily twisted to murderous purposes. This should form part of how we treat the prevention of terrorism and the laws we make around it. Terrorists are not people to be victimised as they have often suffered a great deal too: we must aim for doing away with retribution and making positive changes. Terrorists should be treated as humans in the same way everyone else in the justice system is, as well as this view being encouraged among ordinary people to fight prejudice and the danger of secularisation.

// by Sean Whitton @ Sunday, July 29, 2007  “