en-us If Desi bumps into anything while holding a pen, blocks of super-literate grafitti come gushing out of his hands, man. http://www.desiquintans.com/ Copyright Desi Quintans, 2012 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.desiquintans.com/writersblock Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:05:00 +1100 Other websites Ever since reading part of Vasily Grossman's account of the Treblinka death camp, The Hell of Treblinka in A Writer at War, I've been looking all over for the full text for ages. Well the full English-translated text of The Hell of Treblinka is over at Dropbox, either in HTML format or in PDF format. http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:07:00 +1000 Normal Blog Stuff Writing I have started a mini-blog called Books I Have Read (of course!) where I list all of the books I've finished, and store any passages I have highlighted from them using my Kindle. For each entry I rate the book out of five stars depending on how much I liked it, and give a one sentence summary of the book's premise, and then I list all of the excerpts I've taken. The number of excerpts that are listed should give you an idea of how much I ac… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:10:00 +1000 Writing Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon) Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity. We darkly know, by Faith we cry, The future is not Wholly Dry. Mud unto mu… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:17:00 +1000 Normal Blog Stuff While trying to reinstall my Samsung ML-1665 printer drivers on a clean install of Windows 7, I kept getting these errors where an error popup would tell me, "Arguments are Invalid," and then refuse to install the drivers I needed. This would happen even if I pointed directly to the drivers I wanted. Here is how I solved it. Make sure you haven't turned off any Windows services, or used a tweaking tool that may have turned off services behind your back. If you don't know what I'm talking ab… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=228 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=228 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=228