Danny's Weblog
Introduction
This weblog exists for the following reasons:
- Vanity
- Experimenting with website design features such as optimizing Google searches
- It provides an annotated system of favorites links that I can access from anywhere
I hope you find it useful. You should be aware of the following hints on navigation:
- Postings are presented in REVERSE chronological order
- For a clickable list of topics, refer to the "Site map" in the left-hand navigation pane
- If you click an upper-level topic, the system will *also* display lower-level topics, up to some limit
- Changes in my site setup are listed under the "Chrome" topic.
I don't want people to download my entire site or hit the site frequently for any other reason. Do not set a newsreader, or any other robot, to hit the site more than once per day. Please consider the date-range links and subject links in the sidebar: you can probably get all you want in a single hit. If you are blocked you will probably not be re-enabled.
An introduction to Danny's Weblog
I realized recently that the top right-hand graphic of my weblog page – it reads "Danny's Weblog" with an arrow pointing to "Opinions, Languages, Links, Computing, Asia, Reviews" – may mislead people into thinking it's clickable, and when they try clicking on it and nothing happens, they may conclude the site is broken.
I considered adding a click action that just says "Please *don't* click here" but (unusually for me) reconsidered.
So now clicking that graphic brings up this: an intro to the site.
I have always provided the "Chrome" subtopic for info about the site:
[http://www.panix.com/~dannyw/weblog/Chrome/]
and you should look there also.
I didn't originally intend to make the graphic clickable because I mildly disapprove of using graphics to provide basic site navigation. (I am also too lazy to keep updating the graphic with new topics.) That's why I use the Blosxom plugin which provides a clickable text tree showing all the subtopics on the site (see "Site Map" in the left column).
Note that when you click on a subtopic, Blosxom also displays postings from *sub-sub-topics*,in reverse date order, up to some limit – currently fifty. The number of articles in each subtopic *and its sub-sub-topics* is displayed in parentheses next to the topic on the site map.
Many of my opinions may appear paranoid. My basic justification for that is the following thought experiment: If you have to choose one of 3 possible explanations A, B and C for something, and you assign probabilities of 15%, 10% and 5% to them, and the government is pushing "B", what is the most productive (minimax) response? It seems to me that most people choose one of two strategies: they actually *believe* the government explanation (because it causes least worry and trouble – I suppose the psychological process involved is rather like the interrogation sequence in Orwell's "1984"), or they choose no explanation at all.
I happen to think – in my paranoid way – that the government itself creates most of possibilities A and C, and D-K. So people who choose *no* explanation allow the government to continue to rule via a pyramid of lies.
"Our so-called leaders speak."
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