Actually, I spoke too soon when I claimed I’d succeeded in resurrecting my computer. It started dying on me 5 minutes after reboot, and at one point even complaining of checksum errors. All very scary. It may or may not remain as stable as it has been in the 20 minutes since I finished the last install. I need to try a few more things to find out. If not, I’ll be going to Seoul with it to get it repaired later on today. (If it is okay, I’ll still go to Seoul, but on a somewhat different mission.) Oh …

Everyone! I need you to email me because my computer died a couple of nights ago. I managed to resurrect it, and I do have some email addresses in backup, but a lot of archives and some new sender addresses were lost, especially those new to my computer in the last 6 months. Granted, there are some fairly unhappy emails in that archive that was lost, so unhappy that I can actually say perhaps I am happier that they were lost… but still, the addresses are something I *didn’t* want to lose. So please do email me again soon. Thanks!

print.pitas.com | happy lists :) Wow. A while back, I submitted a Happy List to the Happy Lists Site, over at print.pitas.com. Today it seems this list has finally gotten posted, for the Monday, August 11th posting. Maybe it’s a reminder to try be a little more epicurean, appreciate the little things a little more and find those unique joys that only dumplings or a a cup of coffee can give one.

This weekend’s been difficult, painful and harsh on me, for reasons so complicated I don’t know how to broach them here. So I’ll just post a good quote I found from Aristotle’s Poetics: Tragedy is essentially an imitation not of persons but of action and life, of happiness and misery. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of activity, not a quality. Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions ?what we do ?that we are happy or the reverse. This is important to remember. …