I recently read the Pope’s latest homophobic statements with disgust, though not with surprise.
Pride of place [among proper settings for the education of children] goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman.
This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself.
In reference partly to my recent articles on switching comments off, and also the ‘Identity’ section of my article on attribution of writing on the web, several people have sent me links to Disqus’ research on comments and identity.
My recent follow-up to my article of a month ago about switching comments off has generated quite a bit of interesting discussion, via email, Twitter, and (particularly) posts on other people’s blogs.
Let me just quickly say that again. High-quality, well-considered feedback and responses written on other blogs, rather than impulsive retorts and/or snarks. That’s exactly what I and my fellow no-comments advocates had hoped for and indeed anticipated. So, do keep that in mind.
Last night I posted a brief survey about what kind of articles you most enjoy on this blog, and had around 150 responses. I’m grateful for the feedback, and thought you might be interested in a summary of the results (the survey is still open, by the way - so do feel free to share your thoughts).
Many new PCs come filled with lots of trialware and sample software that slows your computer down—removing all that is a pain, so we do it for you! Every PC the Microsoft Store sells is put on a software diet and performance is tuned to run the best it can.
We call this process Microsoft Signature.
Mac users, on the other hand, call it every computer we’ve ever bought.
Undoubtedly a positive step for Microsoft, but it’s very telling that such a thing is (1) necessary, and (2) deemed worthy of explicit branding and marketing. (And one of the worst offenders for new-PC clutter? I’m looking at you, Sony.)
Here’s vainly hoping that Android gets Google Signature sometime soon too.