16 February 2006

- I HATE POWERPOINT -

More proof that this course of mine is cursed. As I think I've mentioned, I have yet to have a day in this class where I haven't had some sort of serious A/V problem. Now I'm experiencing huge problems with PowerPoint. It's started crashing right and left. It's automatic save function appears to be broken. It even seems to be overwriting saved files with earlier versions (or rather not properly saving when I manually save). Something is seriously wrong with the program. I have to imagine that something is corrupt in one of its start-up files. The problem is: which one?

Grrrr.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope