My internet provider is the dutch XS4ALL, where I had an ADSL Basic account, 6 Mbit download/768 Kbit upload. Recently they provided an upgrade to Xs4ALL Only for the same price, 8 Mbit download/1 Mbit upload, with additionally the possibility to drop the telephone connection and related charges, which was an obligation for the former ADSL connection. Read the rest of this entry »
Please support the victims of the tsunami in south-east Asia.
Thanks to Transient Savant (via Matt) I now also have my Gmail-address, the nice looking curioso@gmail.com.
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from….We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time.
–T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding, V, 214-216, 239-242.
Curiosity killed the cat,
satisfaction brought it back
The saying originally was “care kills a cat,” and began in the 16th century. Care was a warning that worry is bad for your health and can lead to an early grave; the phrase was a recognition that cats seem to be very cautious and careful. Over time, the word care evolved into curiosity.
For me it is related to Schroedinger’s cat, the curiosity of the experimenter kills the cat, or lets it live… Actually curiosity does not kill the cat, it sets it free.
