To be honest, I’m in way over my head on this word. For one thing, there are so many different kinds of debt that people talk about. Just restricting ourselves to the economic sense of the word, there is constant talk in the news of a wide variety of debt-related issues: public debt, third world [...]
With the vice president attending the funeral of one of America’s most famous civil rights opponents, I think it is worth while taking a look at the word “white” as a racial category. In the afterward to the revised edition of his book “The Wages of Whiteness” David Roediger cites Amoja Three Rivers: White people [...]
The Guardian UK has an excellent post today on Irony. Not only addressing a “number of misconceptions” about the word, especially the one that “September 11 spelled the end of irony,” but also providing a nice intellectual history of the word, looking at the ancient Greeks and German philosophers. The only misconception not addressed is [...]
The word “blog” is listed in the March 2003 draft of the OED. It is listed as both a noun and a verb. Both uses are first dated as appearing in 1999. Blog as a verb: intr. To write or maintain a weblog. Also: to read or browse through weblogs, esp. habitually. I like the [...]
This site is officially closed. Please change all your bookmarks, links, etc. to the new site: http://keywords.oxus.net/ See you over there!
This site is officially closed. Please change all your bookmarks, links, etc. to the new site: http://keywords.oxus.net/ See you over there!
This site is officially closed. Please change all your bookmarks, links, etc. to the new site: http://keywords.oxus.net/ See you over there!
I think I solved the Bloglet Problems. We’ll find out tonight. But I lack the patience to wait. I’m going to start posting today. This site is officially closed. Please change all your bookmarks, links, etc. to the new site: http://keywords.oxus.net/ See you over there!
I’ve completed the design of the new site. I even have a couple of items ready to post. However, I am not going to start using the site until I can make sure that I won’t leave behind my e-mail subscribers. Unfortunately, the e-mail notification system in Movable Type doesn’t work the way I want [...]
I’m thinking about a major overhaul in how I do my blogging. First of all, I need to cut down a bit to focus on finishing my dissertation this year. Secondly, the technology and software for blogging has developed so much since I started this blog that I no longer feel obligated to be a [...]