BROKEN LINK
Why do I paste so much text from articles into my posts, instead of simply providing the link to the article?
The answer can be found in two words. These two words constitute the title to the 98th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (see http://www.st-hypertext.com).
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who is annoyed, dissatisfied, or downright pissed, when, upon finding a Google entry that appears to describe an article/story, etc., containing the exact piece of information I/one wants, the link to said information is clicked, I/one discover that the website to which the link is supposed to take me no longer exists/the server is "busy," the article is no longer available, etc.
I consider this blog something of a diary and something of a time capsule. I'd like to able to read it ten years from now so that I can see what I was thinking at this time. I will not be able to experience the full "flavor" of the ten-year-ago writings, so to speak, by clicking upon what turn out to be a bunch of broken links.
Of course, it is quite possible that one day blogspot.com will vanish into thin air, or will start charging for its services, or some other event will happen that will cause this blog to disappear, either by my choice, without my knowledge, or by some other means. Yet such unforeseeable events are a part of life. Broken links - the non-human kind, that is, can be avoided. So, sorry to anyone who is reading this site who is annoyed, agitated or infuriated by the cut and paste jobs. And sorry for even talking about all of this (by doing so, I could be accused of suggesting that this blog actually means something!).
I believe that what we remember is not as important as how we remember it. A broken link prevents us from doing the former but especially the latter. And our memories, of course, are all we have. When they are gone, we are gone. (Roger Ebert, review of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.")
The answer can be found in two words. These two words constitute the title to the 98th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (see http://www.st-hypertext.com).
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who is annoyed, dissatisfied, or downright pissed, when, upon finding a Google entry that appears to describe an article/story, etc., containing the exact piece of information I/one wants, the link to said information is clicked, I/one discover that the website to which the link is supposed to take me no longer exists/the server is "busy," the article is no longer available, etc.
I consider this blog something of a diary and something of a time capsule. I'd like to able to read it ten years from now so that I can see what I was thinking at this time. I will not be able to experience the full "flavor" of the ten-year-ago writings, so to speak, by clicking upon what turn out to be a bunch of broken links.
Of course, it is quite possible that one day blogspot.com will vanish into thin air, or will start charging for its services, or some other event will happen that will cause this blog to disappear, either by my choice, without my knowledge, or by some other means. Yet such unforeseeable events are a part of life. Broken links - the non-human kind, that is, can be avoided. So, sorry to anyone who is reading this site who is annoyed, agitated or infuriated by the cut and paste jobs. And sorry for even talking about all of this (by doing so, I could be accused of suggesting that this blog actually means something!).
I believe that what we remember is not as important as how we remember it. A broken link prevents us from doing the former but especially the latter. And our memories, of course, are all we have. When they are gone, we are gone. (Roger Ebert, review of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.")
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