http://glamanate.com always exploring a sense of clarity Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have begun writing a book about the evolution of Communist thought. I am not a Communist, but I have always been intrigued on how Marxist thought has developed and how Marxism-Leninism has grown. I may have only had the chance to read a few readings and two biographies on ... http://glamanate.com/2010/01/24/passion-and-love-ingredients-for-the-revolutionary/ So its now a little over two weeks into 2010; and in months following there is so much wedding planning, house work, and other things coming. It's weird to think back that it has only been a year since last January. Since then I've moved out of my own ... http://glamanate.com/2010/01/16/2009-a-year-in-retrospect/ This post is to ponder one question: how could a revolution happen in the United States? Our founding fathers were astounded that our country could succesfully go throw a 'revolution' every four years. However, it seems that radical changes from term to term seem less and less. How do you believe ... http://glamanate.com/2009/12/23/how-a-revolution-could-happen/ I found some notes from my last plane ride to California. My friend Mark and I have agreed to collaborate and write some essays together, I just pitched this to him, but here's a basic run down from my notebook. Anarchism (by Webster definition) means lack of government; and government is ... http://glamanate.com/2009/11/24/an-essay-in-work-what-is-anarchism/ So I may be a little bit slow, but I figured other programmers like myself may find this interesting if they have not found it.  On the Careers section of Facebook there are a series of puzzles that are to be completed in *NIX environments, so no .NET or Windows ... http://glamanate.com/2009/11/21/facebook-engineering-puzzles/ So in about one hour we will be closing the deal on our first house. http://glamanate.com/2009/10/30/our-first-house/ October 25th marked one year of my fianceé and I being together; so, we did like most do and went on vacation. We stayed at the Island View Hideaway on Lake Wisconsin. Just like at Water's Edge Retreat, check-in was at four in the afternoon, and check-out at eleven in ... http://glamanate.com/2009/10/28/island-view-hideaway/ Ever since I salvaged my HP Pavilion dv1000, I have used Fedora for my OS. However, there was a major disappointment. Flash videos, or nearly any video, would cause my screen to whack out and show strips of what should be the video all over the place. I searched this ... http://glamanate.com/2009/10/26/fedora-11-vs-intel-extreme-graphics-2/ So this morning I woke up the best way possible, discovering a random charge of $84.80 to my credit account through charges from my web host, JustHost. Turns out at roughly 1AM this morning someone managed to register two domains, a $50 domain advertising package, and domain privacy. So I ... http://glamanate.com/2009/10/14/84-80/ Some time in high school I decided to wipe the slate clean and rebuild my fundamental foundation. Ideologies of the anarcho-syndicalist brewed together with the no-meaningness of nihilism. As time has gone on I've built such a complex equation on what is morally right and wrong; equations to decide if ... http://glamanate.com/2009/09/26/nihilism-is-such-a-trip/