“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
The whole speach can be read here.
Browsing Posts published in December, 2008
I’ve installed the plugin from sociable – and that should be pretty obvious on the front page of the blog. I’ve just tested it a bit, but it seems to not refresh when I log in, but if I click on a story to comment, I am logged in. The graphics don’t fit the width of my sidebar. This is a touch of a problem – and I’ll poke around later to see what I need to do to fix that. Hopefully I can just resize the image in gimp. It took me a few minutes to install and get it working. Pretty straightforward with lots of explanations, including a video, over at the Sociable site
Fresh from the STS-126 mission space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, flew over California’s Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 10, 2008. (Click on the image to go to a NASA page where you can see and download larger versions.)
Facebook Connect enables integration between external sites and facebook. What this means is that many of you who already have blogs outside facebook can now use Facebook Connect to bring Facebook to your blog and your blog back to Facebook. This includes Identity, Friends, Discovery and Privacy. There is already a Facebook Connect plugin directory with plugins for Moveable Type and WordPress; blog widgets for JS-Kit, Disqus, NetworkedBlogs, and RPX as well as a plugin for MediaWiki. I am sure there will be more to come in the future. I’m checking out the WP plugins right now – going to have to see what this brings me.
Amazon is giving away a free song a day leading up to Christmas. There are some really good tunes there. No drm on the files either. So move about between your devices, burn yourself a nice Christmas CD – whatever. So nice.
