one small voicePeter Saint-Andrehttp://stpeter.im/The journal of Peter Saint-Andre - technologist, writer, musician.http://stpeter.im/journal/http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/2013-04-23A Point Reachedtag:stpeter.im,14852013-04-232013-04-23Just a quick note to say that I now consider my Epicurean dialogue on happiness to be finished, thus completing a journey of exploration that began five years ago when, thanks to my friend Manuel, I decided to start translating the ethical writings of Epicurus (although in fact I have been interested in Epicurus ever since I read and responded to Ray Shelton's paper "Epicurus and Rand" back in 1997).
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Epicurean Analysistag:stpeter.im,14842013-02-242013-02-24While working on the second draft of my dialogue Letters on Epicurus, I've been thinking about the Epicurean analysis of where human beings go astray in the pursuit of happiness. According to Epicurus, a "vice" or "sin" is a pattern of thought and behavior that is driven by a specific fear and that leads to an unnatural or unnecessary desire, thus taking you off the path to happiness.
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RFC 6869tag:stpeter.im,14832013-02-082013-02-08Today the RFC Editor published RFC 6869, which defines a new kind of vCard for devices. This document, which I co-authored with two of my colleagues at Cisco, complements RFC 6473. During the working group discussions that led to publication of RFC 6473, we decided to split software applications from hardware devices in the general category of things (as opposed to people, locations, groups, and organizations, which are defined in the core vCard spec). We considered "thing" too generic, but we also didn't want to begin the endless task of defining a detailed taxonomy of things, thus the middle ground of defining devices and applications to start with. We can always add more kinds if needed. :-)