Monthly Archives: December 2007

Santayana's Response to the Metaphysical Excesses in Schopenhauer's Account of Aesthetic Experience

In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer offers an encyclopedic vision of a dichotomized world; half of the world is mere appearance or representation, while the other half consists of things-in-themselves, inner natures, Will. Schopenhauer borrows the language and concepts from his general system of metaphysical duality, most notably the concept [...]

Banshee plugin for Do

Athrun cooked up a nice Banshee plugin for Do based on my Rhythmbox one. It looks very promising. If you’re interested, go give it a spin and report any problems to Athrun!

Overheard at a Coffee Shop #1

“If it weren’t for God, I wouldn’t be here–I’d be out doing something wrong.” –The guy who’s always reading a Bible at Bucks
If this is really true, I guess it’s a good thing that this guy has faith, but this still makes me pretty nervous.

Early Criticism of GNOME Do

I’d like to respond to some early criticism I’ve seen of GNOME Do.
“Why is it written in a Windows-specific language? It would have better for them to write it in Python.”

I get the idea that most of the people saying this simply don’t understand what they’re talking about. Yes, Do plugins have the extension “.dll”, [...]