I. Via daring fireball and makkintosshu, I learned that the URL http://www.apple.com/hypercard now redirects to the Wikipedia entry for Hypercard.
II. Today I got the student comment forms from my teaching last Fall. Again I asked students about the textbook I wrote for intro logic.
III. Some people have suggested to me that I should try my hand at writing some newspaper op-ed pieces.
IV: A few weeks ago, I participated in a workshop on underdetermination at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science.
V: I was at Cornell last weekend for the Berkeley Bonanza, organized by Andrew Chignell and Melissa Frankel.
VI: I uploaded the first new version of forall x in over a year.
VII: In these two related items, Wikipedian prose appears in print...
VIII: I have always thought that the Swampman thought experiment is analytic philosophy at its worst.
IX: When I have teach logic to one or two hundred students, the class is in one the university's lecture centers.
X: Thus concludes year four of the blog.
XI: Suppose I wake up one morning and find that I believe something (call it Q) that I had not believed before.
XII: Christy Mag Uidhir and I coauthored a paper on art concept pluralism.
Mostly teaching, philosophy conferences, and Wikipedia.
I managed to keep my resolution to have at least one post in every month, although September and November came down to the wire.
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Thus concludes year four of the blog. The statistics stand at 171 entries using 83,750 words. That's 34 entries and 24,882 words accumulated in the past year. This reverses the year-over-year trend of decreasing blogging.
Admittedly, a great many of the words were William Leue's history of the UAlbany philosophy department. Perhaps I should root around in the storage room some more, in hopes of finding extra content for the coming year. Perhaps invoices for office supplies and photographs of people whom nobody remembers?
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Here's the bullet-point summary of my blogging in 2008. In accord with tradition, I've taken the first sentence from the first post of every month; cf. 2006 and 2007.
I: Three items related to papers and publication...
II: Bridget and Janet both made note of Blogroll Amnesty Day.
III: Last week I received the student comment forms from my teaching last term.
IV: I gave my Saturday over to the UAlbany Grad Student Philosophy Conference, and I am glad I did.
V: Yesterday was the last day of class, and so it was time for the usual debriefing.
VI: I've posted a new draft of my paper on epistemic significance and natural curiousity.
VII: Not long ago, I wrote a short paper on musical performance.
VIII: At dinner several weeks ago, I mentioned that the word 'broad' to describe a woman originally referred to pregnant cows.
IX: I was recently advising undergraduates as they registered for classes.
X: There's been some blog reaction to my fibs in Wikipedia paper.
XI: [n/a]
XII: 'Existentialism' has been a bit of vexed jargon in the 20th century.
Blogging has been lighter this year, so much so that there were no posts in November whatsoever. Content, such as it is, is a mix of philosophical research (4 months), teaching (4 months), and random other stuff. Only one month begins with a post discussing the blog itself. The blog has been less self-absorbed, perhaps only because there has been less of itself for it be be absorbed in.
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Thus concludes year three of the blog. The statistics stand at 137 entries using 58,868 words. About 14k of those words were from the previous year. If you plot words blogged per year and draw a best fit line, the output reaches zero at the end of the fifth year. However, even if output decreases monotonically, it is unlikely to be linear. I have no plans to stop blogging.
I discovered recently that the blog software I use here is deleting some comments. I think it only happens when there are spam comments; I delete the spam, and the software gets too exuberant. I do appreciate any comments, and I'm looking for the source of the problem.
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Bridget and Janet both made note of Blogroll Amnesty Day. I thought that maybe I should use the occasion to actually add a blogroll here at FoE. Since I have recently begun using Bloglines, generating the list would be as easy as this:
Adding it to the right-hand column would only require adding a line to the PHP template for the page, but no. First, because I think the right-hand column of this blog is already a bit too long. And adding a third column would be bad UI of the highest order. Second, because blogroll is a vile word. One does not step in such a thing voluntarily.
Instead, I've included two such dynamic lists in the Useful links page.
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