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The Gödel Incompleteness Principle: Czech-born mathematician Kurt Gödel proved that at the margins of any large logical system, such as arithmetic, or conceptual construct, such as Newtonian physics, problems would arise that could not be solved without going outside the system itself. If the system were enlarged to include these problems' solution, it would lose its integrity as a system. Hence all systems must be incomplete. In ethical terms, Gödel's liberating discovery means that no one ethical system will work for every problem, and that the fact that such a system does not solve a particular problem does not mean the system is invalid.

You know you want to read more. Here's the Wikipedia Link. And here is where I came across this definition. There are others of interest, but don't worry, when I get dry I'll post some others here.

All right, I've been a bit slack lately. There are extenuating circumstances. In the last week I experienced the most excruciating work day of my career - layoffs. No fun and a couple of my friends didn't escape the blade. But I'm recovering from my PTSD. Seriously, I wasn't sleeping and am only now getting back to normal.

Thanks go to my friend 'Killer' for giving me a little gem to blog about.  We were swapping stories about nicknames.  My theory is:

For a nickname to stick you either you assign a nickname that is a preposterous non-sequitur or one that is so finely tuned to the intended that it seems like the consummation of some longing in the natural order when it is applied.

Which is why Cobb is so perfect, but I digress.  Needless to say 'Killer' isn't really named 'Killer' but yet I predict the nickname will stick.

We were swapping stories and I was offering, what to some, is the old hoary chestnut about a friend of my little brother who I dubbed "Ox" well over 10 years ago.  I am awaiting confirmation but I'm pretty certain it stuck.

Approaching a mid-length post... She responds about telling me about a friend of hers who has fallen into a man hole THREE times - once in India.  She went on to mention that her friend was from Mexico and had likely done the other two there.  Neither of us could recall ever seeing an open man hole without all kinds of protective barriers.

Quick hop and a skip leads me to the phrase of the day "Mexican Man hole"...  I don't even know where to go with this.  I don't work blue, and this is generally a PG-13 blog, but I can't let it drop.  At any rate, fill in your own visual here all I have are some stock images:

Oh, and I'm back!

Real Information about the location of Dave and Busters in Scottsdale is here.

First let's be clear, I have so little traffic that I am grateful for each and every one of you who visits. For my public image let's just say there are still enough of you that I could send you all an email and not entirely hate my life. That being said, I don't have control over what google.com analytics tells me my traffic is coming from. Welcome Asia and Europe and Canada!

You'll probably remember a bit ago I blogged about Dave and Busters Phoenix, and then I blogged about how I seem to be picking up a lot of traffic from that. And by a lot I mean enough that I am noticing. So In my last post I set out to create a truly useful post about Dave and Busters in Phoenix so that those poor souls who ended up here looking for real information would find it.

So, based on the graphic, it looks I've made a few waves in Arizona. This leads me back to my earlier idea... what if I just wrote a blog about really specific directions to places (e.g. the Duane Reade at 7th Avenue and 14th Street)? Would I pick up specialized search traffic? Who knows. I'm sure all the SEO people are laughing at me now - they've long since figured it out.

I find all this pretty interesting. Oh, and by the way, I've moved up on the google search results for "dave and busters phoenix" I appear to be number 5!

Oh, and here is a link to Jonk's blog. Cause he's a good guy. And Welcome back Noam . Where the heck is my link on your site?

I'm a web developer, and while there is a constant march of new tools and techniques that have made my life better, one thing that still tops the list is FireBug (the Firefox plug-in). Seriously, if you're developing web applications without Firebug you're working too hard.

Now, I think I may have another top 5 item. It's called Xobni (inbox backward - pronounced Zob-nee, so I can tell). I've been playing around with it for about two days now and it seems to solve really well some of the most basic outlook problems. The first and probably most annoying is the age old "I know he sent me a copy of it but where is the email". Until now I've been using Google Desktop and/or the Google Desktop outlook plug-in to do my find, usually searching on the person or something about the conversation to find a list of emails from the person. Their search results are really weak, it give me the email from the person with a from line a subject, maybe a couple lines of text and an icon indicating if there was an attachment. This approach breaks down if you're looking for something in even the semi-recent past or if there were multiple attachments flying back and forth between you and the person. You have to poke around. Xobni solves this by pulling up a file list of everything that the person has sent you in an email when you select that person when they are selected - amen.

The other problem I run into occasionally is trying to track down a phone number for someone. I'm pretty picky who I put in my contact list in Outlook but at the same time I need to find a phone number. Xobni automatically extracts phone numbers from all the email someone has sent me and displays it with a Skype tool menu. And if I have a phone number for the person in my contacts, it displays that.

Here is their little demo video that is pretty thorough:

Check it out, I'm pretty happy so far (Day 3). The Performance is good on my desktop, a little lack-luster on my laptop, but it doesn't hang up Outlook. There is a bunch more to it that I've left out and am still discovering, but I think they hit the nail on the head. I don't usually gush about stuff, but digging around Outlook has got to be one of my least favorite things ever, and this may keep me from having to do it ever again. Whoop Whoop! Give me a week or so and I'll place it in my top 5 tools of now.
hat tip to Drit for pointing it my way

My boy Noam has a post about how Google has added color to the labels in Gmail. (At some point here he'll get his RSS setup and he'll be on my blog roll)

I will be using that, big time. I love me the color codes. 

Friending, Ancient or Otherwise

“In tribal cultures, your identity is completely wrapped up in the question of how people know you,” he says. “When you look at Facebook, you can see the same pattern at work: people projecting their identities by demonstrating their relationships to each other. You define yourself in terms of who your friends are.”

In tribal societies, people routinely give each other jewelry, weapons and ritual objects to cement their social ties. On Facebook, people accomplish the same thing by trading symbolic sock monkeys, disco balls and hula girls.

Yesterday, I was flying from Phoenix to Denver all the while watching the landscape below me and reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger.  I saw the author speak at the ClickZ.com "ten years..." dinner and was sufficiently impressed that he had something worthwhile to say that I was pleased to discover a copy of his book in the swag bag.  I'm only half way in, but his general gist so far is that the material nature of objects imposes limitations on their organization in space and the web blows the lid off of that as the web offers infinite categorization of objects.  I'll tell you later if I recommend the book, but so far he's made some interesting points.  So if you get a free copy, read it otherwise - hold the line.

I am more or less fascinated with Taxonomy, so it's pretty fitting that my first post where I inagurate both my blog and my first category is taxomonious (not sure that's a word.)