By Paulo Coelho
The Warrior of Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.
(Manual of the Warrior of Light)
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Daily Archive for June 3rd, 2008
Today In Digg, I found this interesting article for ArsTecnica by By Jacqui Cheng
Over the weekend, The Pirate Bay “celebrated” its second anniversary of being raided by the Swedish police. On May 31, 2006, law enforcement seized all of the popular torrent tracker’s servers and backups, and arrested two of the site’s operators. The site didn’t stay down for long, though—just a few days later, everything was business as usual for The Pirate Bay. A court date in Sweden has yet to be set, and support for the site appears to be stronger than ever.
Since the raids, the predictable has happened: the site’s popularity has exploded. The Pirate Bay says that its number of Bit Torrent peers has grown from 2.5 million to over 12 million, and that registered users have grown from 1 million to 2.7 million. The tracker is more popular than ever, and continues to grow every day. “It’s awesome to see the support the community show us. Even in our bad moments, we get your support,” said the Pirate Bay’s admins in the posting.
The general reaction across the Internet is quite positive—and largely pro Pirate Bay. Commenters on the Pirate Bay’s blog post, Digg, and swaths of other blog entries are almost unanimous in their support of the site and its goal of remaining online and operational. TorrentFreak even named the anniversary “Happy Pirates independence day.”
To read the rest of the article, please go here.
With the exception of a few last sentences in the epilogue your novel 11 minutes is a record of disappointment and despair that no human being escapes. Yet it seems that you only dwell on them in order to show - in passing and almost inadvertently - that disappointment is but a stage of personal development, at the end of which comes a new passion for life. Is this what you are trying to say?
The Greek poet Kavafis, referring to Ulysses, says: “keep Ithaca in mind, but I hope that your journey will last many years, and you will learn everything you need to learn.” Although he was forced to face difficult circumstances, he knew that Penelope was waiting for him at the end of his ordeals. This happens to all of us - we must have confidence that, in the end, we will find what we have been struggling for.
