April First
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Maundy Thursday, April Fool’s Day. It seems hard to know where to start, but I’ve decided to again start with the childhood invocation of good luck. It seems like a lot of us could use a little good luck right about now.
For April Fool’s day, I haven’t been up long enough to find any great pranks yet, but I’m hoping to find some good ones soon. On the other hand, I’m not currently planning any pranks. The closest I’m finding is the first release of MeeGo. We’ll see how good, or how much of a prank that turns out to be. In other technology news, I’ve started tweaking my site a little bit. Specifically, I’ve started adding code to make some blocks on the side appear only for certain types of stories. It makes the site more complicated, but hopefully, it will make it a little cleaner as well.
Then, there is Maundy Thursday. For Christians, it is the remembrance of the Last Supper. It is generally thought to have gotten its name from the mandate to Christians that we should love one another as Christ has loved us. How does this related to experimenting with new software? Playing pranks? Our politics? Our work? Our life in general? This is something each of us needs to work out, perhaps even whether or not we call ourselves Christians.
Perhaps if our politics and our business ethics returned a little bit closer to the call to love one another as Christ loved us, we’d have a much different political and economic climate right now, and perhaps few of us would be feeling the need to resort to the old childhood invocation for good luck.