chronos

Closing a year that has been equal parts rewarding and tumultuous for me, I will be spending the next ten days engaged in a course on Vipassana Meditation at the Southeast Vipassana Center in Jesup, GA. As such, I will be completely out of contact with the outside world, so no phone or Internet for me.

Since I won’t be in contact in the mean time, I wish everyone a joyous new year. See you in 2011!

Some of my friends sit around every evening,
And they worry about the times ahead.

But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference,
And the promise of an early bed.

WikiLeaks’ Swiss host, Switch, said that there was “no reason” why the site should be forced offline, despite demands from France and the US, in a statement released by the Swiss Pirate Party. French host OVH declared that it was up to judges, and “not up to the politicians or OVH to request or decide the closure of the site,” in a response to the French government.