Chipping the web – best regards
March 30th, 2007 4:39:45 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
72 is par for the course on most 18-hole golf courses.
If you’re switching to Ruby from some other language, be prepared. It doesn’t come for free. You will spend considerable time searching for things you used to have and no longer need. Old habits are hard to break. It takes a while to trust yourself and break the dependency.
Yesterday’s post about Intelligent Design sparked an interesting comment thread. Then Kiltak posted a video on cosmology that ties in nicely. ID: no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, maybe. Of course, if there is an intelligent creator, then who created her and her universe? Is there an infinite regression?
Speaking of Shelley : “There is a code already: it’s called humanity.”
Apotheon’s finally back in blogness after his long trip and adventures with Windows Me. Ewwww.
Randy doesn’t get Twitter. Yep, that’s it, Randy.
Diogenes has started a blog series on the “Fine Art of Blogging” in which he posts thoughts about that subject from various bloggers. Here’s my contribution .
WordPress users, check out the new OPML Browser for WordPress. Paul McGillivary likes it — it’s already up on ContentQuake. Many thanks to Paul and Tony Lindskog for their suggestions for this plugin, and for testing it out for me.
Mohan of Blogging India has added me to his blogroll. Shukriyaa, Mohan!
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Hey! Whats with the Hindi?
Lol… Shouldnt you be saying that “Shukriyaa” means “Thank You” in Hindi?
BTW, India has 27 official languages, and my mother tounge is a language called Malayalam, not Hindi. In Malayalam, “thank you” would be “nandi”.
Sometimes I like being a little obscure for my readers — it’s a bad habit.
Not knowing where you were in India, I took what I considered the safest route: a Hindi word based on an Arabic root. Now that I know better, I can say:
Nandi, Mohan.
Lol
Its not a bad habit… Makes your readers more intellectual… They’ll become too lazy if you give them ALL the information 
And no, Arabi is not the root for Hindi. Hindi is a language derived from the oldest language of the world, Sanskrit
Arabi is a mixed for of Babylon, Sanskrit and Persian. 
Oh yes, I know that Hindi is not derived from Arabic. But the word Shukriyaa is derived from the Arabic word Shukran. A more pure Hindi word would be Dhanyavaad.
Woah! How do you know Hindi?
BTW, Shukran is the Hindi word for Saturn.
Interesting coincidence (or is it?)
I don’t really know Hindi, but I’ve studied the histories of many languages and picked up a little of each. I find language fascinating, as a vessel and a container of thoughts. I like to try on the point of view that would find natural a language that seems strange to me initially. It opens the mind to thinking in new ways.
Wow thats nice
Great thought there 
Yeah… That is true… Languages are fascinating. Unfortunately the only 2 languages I’m fluent with are English and my mother tounge, Malayalam. I understand Hindi when I hear it. Tamil too. French can pass ok. But everything else is greek to me
“Greek to me”
It’s funny to me that one of the most logically constructed languages in history has become the subject of that phrase. I’d vote instead for one of the Celtic languages for obscurity and irregularity.
“It’s Cumbric to me.”
Its actually a phrase… Derived by good ol’ Shakespeare himself
Thats because in Shakespeare’s times, Greek was considered, well, a pretty tough language, and was limited to the elite few… So anything spoken in Greek was, well, Greek to the people
Looks like Shakespeare borrowed it from even earlier sources.
Damn! I should stop being a die hard Shakespeare fan!
It’s funny, I’ve been reading Shakespeare lately, with breakfast. Even with the archaic English, his powers of expression are hard to beat.
[...] Best regards: one interpretation for the ham radio expression “73“. I like the 1857 version: “My love to you!” [...]
Lol… Yeah, Shakespeare’s the man! No man alive or dead made characters and emotions like Shakespeare!
Thy words shine as the very sun of truth.
Lol… Yeah yeah