Philosophy of the Arts

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Blog-logic reclaimed

Due to a change in server technology, my weblog has been disturbed profoundly. Quite a few entries placed a long time ago have been redated to december 20, 2007, and were placed up in the blog hierarchy. I am sorry about this disturbance of blog-logic.
I sincerely hope my present tactics of uploading entries restores that logic.

As of a couple of days ago, everything should be in order again.
(This is just for those who are worried about finding old entries presented as new.)

In fact, what this change means, is that I won’t be able to fool my readers anymore. Blapp, the software I used to manage my blog with (and which was turned obsolete due to the server change, to WebDav technology—as it disallows the very safe ssh-uploading that Blapp made use of) enabled one to make small changes without changing the modification dat of the file more than a couple of seconds. The result was: the retaining of the temporal file hierarchy even if the file was changed. Of course, this is in a sense cheating, and it has always relied on the author’s sincerity. I mean, I could change typos in this manner without anyone having to pay attention to the changes, or strengthen my arguments (both of which are in everyone’s interest), but I could also change my views retro-actively on the basis of arguments stolen from others (which is, obviously, against rational sincerity).
Well, those days are over again. From now on, I really have to check my typing and thinking before submitting.

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