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The bipolars were up in arms about Tom Cruise’s comments on psychiatry, UFOs and medications while on Oprah’s show. Since I work full time, I don’t get to watch Oprah and I missed the famous “TC goes apeshit on Oprah” episode. In case you missed it too, here’s the film clip. Is he still dating that little girl? There’s a clip on Oprah’s site called “ Tom Cruise Engaged .” In it, Oprah asks Katie, “What does this feel like, when you grew up wanting marry Tom Cruise?” Eeeeeeeeew.

Who listens to my thoughts?

Next, said I, here is a parable to illustrate the degrees in which our nature may be enlightened or unenlightened. Imagine the condition of men living in a sort of cavernous chamber underground, with an entrance open to the light and a long passage all down to the cave. Here they have been since childhood, chained by the leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and can only see what is in front of them, because the chains will not let them turn their heads. At some distance higher up is the light of a fire burning behind them; and between the prisoners and the fire is a track with a parapet built along it, like the screen at a puppet-show, which hides the performers while they show their puppets over the top. I see, said he. Now behind this parapet imagine persons carrying along various artificial objects, including figures of men and animals in wood or stone or other materials, which project above the parapet. Naturally, some of these persons will be talking, others silent. ...

This little excerpt has a couple of very important concepts. First, it gives some insight into why some folks somatize their illnesses – because they don’t have a word that helps to define the experience so it falls back into the physical realm. Second, it shows that individual emotions can be lumped together under less specific umbrella words. This makes a good argument for improving your vocabulary in preventing episodes triggered by external events. “Anthropologists report enormous differences in the ways that different cultures categorize emotions. Some languages, in fact, do not even have a word for emotion. Other languages differ in the number of words they have to name emotions. While English has over 2,000 words to describe emotional categories, there are only 750 such descriptive words in Taiwanese Chinese. One tribal language has only seven words that could be translated into categories of emotion. The words used to name or describe an emotion can influence ...

So you’ve decided to start a blog. Blog, of course, is the nickname for a Weblog. Blogging has been described as “grassroots journalism”, in that it is closer to the events described and has more immediacy than a magazine or even a newspaper. The Blogosphere is the world of weblogs, the cycling and recycling of news and commentary that occurs as bloggers analyze and spin information found on mainstream news media and on other blogs. A Blogger, then is one who blogs. Bloggers have been described with syllogisms such as blogger : journalist :: tick : sheep and bloggers : journalists :: dung beetles : elephants Here are a few hints to get you started. Define your purpose This is simple enough. You want to attract readers who have the same interests as you do, and you want to keep them coming back. Your blog can be anything from an online “Dear Diary” to a political editorial column. Decide in advance what you want it to be. Know your intended audience....

I recently decided to migrate the main web page to a Wiki. I’ve messed around with a couple of CMSs – Mambo and subDreamer – and decided that the format and size of the site really don’t require that kind of power. A quick look at the features of some popular wiki software led me to choose TikiWiki for the site upgrade. It will be no tour-de-force to convert the database later. Rather than playing with the wiki software online, using up bandwidth and taking the risk of hosing my WordPress database or forums, I decided to evaluate TikiWiki locally under Windows XP SP2. Accomplishing this doesn’t require any programming experience or expertise in using *ix, web servers, MySQL, or phpMyAdmin. This is how to do it: Get PhpTriad Download PhpTriad from SourceForge. PhpTriad contains Windows versions of the ubiquitous Apache server, MySQL database software, and PHP support. PhpTriad’s Windows installer unpacks the whole mess under c:\apache . When th...