What an awesome beginning to a book!

"Not darknessss, for that implies an understanding of light.
   Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound.
   Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others.
   But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn't exist at all: awareness.
Nothing more than that. Just awareness--a vague, ethereal sense of being.
   Being...but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future--only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception..."

http://www.amazon.com/WWW-Wake-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0441016790

Beautiful, heartfelt, truth from my good friend David. This is my favorite type of music. You can hear more of his music and some comedy on David's YouTube channel.

From an email:

"Our dear friend Geoff Golner passed away yesterday. A memorial service is scheduled on Sunday, 20 Dec, at 11:00 AM, at Temple Beth El, in Berkeley. Please spread the word."

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Inflation Could be back in 2010

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Excellent practical wisdom on the discipline of software development