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Old 12-18-2008
Zen and the Misery of Experience

Tim Bass
12-18-2008 04:56 AM
It is great to relax and just enjoy the good life in Northern Thailand.* As I read so many blog posts and technology articles by people who just don’t have a clue about what they are talking about, I am reminded of a passage by one of the world’s great writers Umberto Eco.

Foucault’s Pendulum was the second novel written by Umberto Eco. The plot revolves around three friends, who work for a small publishing company in Milan. After reading many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories and decide they can do better and begin to invent their own conspiracy for fun.* Their conspiracy, which they call “The Plan”, is about an immense and intricate plot to take over the world by a secret order descended from the Knights Templar.* As the game progresses, the three men slowly become obsessed with the details and their game turns dangerous when other learn of The Plan and believe that the three have actually discovered the secret to regaining the lost, vast fortune of the Templars.

In this amazing novel, there is an immortal, Comte de St. Germain, who is central to the story.** During a long ocean voyage, standing desk-side on top of a large vessel watching the sun go down, one of Comte de St. Germain admirers asks, in effect (paraphrasing),
“It must be great to be immortal?” (paraphrasing)

The next few passages in the Eco’s narrative are unsurpassed in beauty and wisdom, as Comte de St. Germain laments the painfulness of watching humans born into the world, grow, learn and die, passing along very little knowledge to the next generation, who are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.* This, in a nutshell, is a metaphor of the human condition.

So, as my hair slowly, but surely, turns gray, and I read so many opinions from those with less experience, I feel pain as did Comte de St. Germain in his amazing immortal journey.* Granted, one lifetime and three decades of technical experience, including zero day Internet distributed computing and network systems engineering experience, is a far cry from immortality; however, I can still feel the pain of reading and watching so many with less experience make so many mistakes, or boast of their new “discoveries”.

It is almost unimaginable to think about how much pain one would feel after living hundreds of generations, like Comte de St. Germain, seeing “experts” with little clue about what they are doing, talking as if they actually knew what they were talking about.

Sigh.



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BLAZE-EDIT(1)						    BlazeBlogger Documentation						     BLAZE-EDIT(1)

NAME
blaze-edit - edits a blog post or a page in the BlazeBlogger repository SYNOPSIS
blaze-edit [-fpqCPV] [-b directory] [-E editor] id blaze-edit -h|-v DESCRIPTION
blaze-edit opens an existing blog post or a page with the specified id in an external text editor. Note that there are several special forms and placeholders that can be used in the text, and that will be replaced with a proper data when the blog is generated. Special Forms <!-- break --> A mark to delimit a blog post synopsis. Placeholders %root% A relative path to the root directory of the blog. %home% A relative path to the index page of the blog. %page[id]% A relative path to a page with the supplied id. %post[id]% A relative path to a blog post with the supplied id. %tag[name]% A relative path to a tag with the supplied name. OPTIONS
-b directory, --blogdir directory Allows you to specify a directory in which the BlazeBlogger repository is placed. The default option is a current working directory. -E editor, --editor editor Allows you to specify an external text editor. When supplied, this option overrides the relevant configuration option. -p, --page Tells blaze-edit to edit a page or pages. -P, --post Tells blaze-edit to edit a blog post or blog posts. This is the default option. -f, --force Tells blaze-edit to create an empty source file in case it does not already exist. If the core.processor option is enabled, this file is used as the input to be processed by the selected application. -C, --no-processor Disables processing a blog post or page with an external application. -q, --quiet Disables displaying of unnecessary messages. -V, --verbose Enables displaying of all messages. This is the default option. -h, --help Displays usage information and exits. -v, --version Displays version information and exits. ENVIRONMENT
EDITOR Unless the core.editor option is set, BlazeBlogger tries to use system-wide settings to decide which editor to use. EXAMPLE USAGE
Edit a blog post in an external text editor: ~]$ blaze-edit 10 Edit a page in an external text editor: ~]$ blaze-edit -p 4 Edit a page in nano: ~]$ blaze-edit -p 2 -E nano SEE ALSO
blaze-config(1), blaze-add(1), blaze-list(1) BUGS
To report a bug or to send a patch, please, add a new issue to the bug tracker at <http://code.google.com/p/blazeblogger/issues/>, or visit the discussion group at <http://groups.google.com/group/blazeblogger/>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Jaromir Hradilek This program is free software; see the source for copying conditions. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Version 1.2.0 2012-03-05 BLAZE-EDIT(1)
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