“Regardless of how much knowledge
you might acquire,
you are still ignorant
without action —
You would be neither scholar nor learned,
but an animal carrying books.
A donkey doesn’t know whether it’s carrying books
or firewood.”
– Sa’di

As I mentioned, a lot of my free software related posts will now be at LinuxLibrarian.org. Here is my latest update on KDE4:

A lot of talk has been circulating recently about KDE4, as developers inch closer to settling on a release date. Here are some of the particularly cool [...]

According to this report, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has “not ruled out” the possibility of military attacks against Iran. Using similar language to Bush’s, he even borrowed contradictory phrases such as “aggressive diplomacy” to describe how he would deal with Iran.
Well, here’s a hint, Barack, I don’t think threats of military attacks or aggressive [...]

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Sa‘íd ibn Jubayr reported, “I heard the saying of ‘Alí ibn al-Husayn, ‘There are many attributes (sunnah) of six prophets in our al-Qàim: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Job and Muhammad [peace be upon them]. As for the attribute from Noah, it is long life, from Abraham, it is having a hidden birth and being separated [...]

**Sigh** I don’t know what I’m going to do with this girl.