lundi, août 13, 2007
Blog Hosting and Modern Prince
does anyone have any recommendation on whether Movable Type or Wordpress is better? =]
or does anyone know how to host =p
anyway today's Sunday Times had this decent article on LKY. quoted out from the book The Modern Prince, by Carnes Lord.
i like this para
Struck me as a nice thought. Sounds rather true too. Extremities are always unbalancers, and can never be properly accepted into society.
There was also another point that "autocratic temptation is difficult to resist". I like this book for it's indepth and causal analysis of LKY and his government's actions and decisions, the situations and conditions which prompted them to react and decide Singapore's future the way they did. In some ways, we can see that certain parts of his background and Singapore's state influenced decisions. When we look back in history, and analyse everything to bits, we find that in all ingenuity lies a certain obvious decision which we were not aware of.
An old man's memories are never perfect.
Blog Hosting and Modern Prince
Spent the greater part of the day checking out blog programs and server programs, and trying to install Apache webserver and Movable Type, and MySQL, and Perl. to no avail. and IIS7 too. it only works abit. sigh.
does anyone have any recommendation on whether Movable Type or Wordpress is better? =]
or does anyone know how to host =p
anyway today's Sunday Times had this decent article on LKY. quoted out from the book The Modern Prince, by Carnes Lord.
i like this para
"A final lesson, however, is that the autocratic temptation is difficult to resist, even - indeed, particularly - for leaders of the stature of de Gaulle and Lee. It is easy enough to understand why. Both men were far from ordinary politicians; and their greatness threw into relief the littleness of the political competition.
Aristotle observes that in a situation where the virtue and political capacity of a single individual is so great that is is no longer commensurate with that of others, there are only two choices: to exile such a person, or 'for everyone to obey(him) gladly, so that persons of this sort will be permanent kings in their cities'. "
Struck me as a nice thought. Sounds rather true too. Extremities are always unbalancers, and can never be properly accepted into society.
There was also another point that "autocratic temptation is difficult to resist". I like this book for it's indepth and causal analysis of LKY and his government's actions and decisions, the situations and conditions which prompted them to react and decide Singapore's future the way they did. In some ways, we can see that certain parts of his background and Singapore's state influenced decisions. When we look back in history, and analyse everything to bits, we find that in all ingenuity lies a certain obvious decision which we were not aware of.
An old man's memories are never perfect.
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