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How things move (or, ‘I have become a wimp’).

I have become a wimp.
It’s not that I have some kind of primordial/biblical “Eve” complex. Snakes are kind of neat, when someone else is holding them. It’s just that their presence correlates well (I presume) with that of other creepy crawlies in general and so I figure I’d be doing well just to steer clear of [...]

A brief psychohistory…

This Post is being brought to you by the vanishingly small probablility that my folks will ever encounter my blog, let alone pause to read it.
And also by the fact that I am curious as to what I will end up writing down. I have no desire to turn this blog into some sort of [...]

neuroscene : virtual worlds and social media

I stumbled upon Neuroscene today – have a listen to this podcast: an interview with Dr Susan Greenfield about the neuroscientific implications of our increasingly digital world…

A sufficiently large cubicle farm induces selective routing stupidity

Here’s how it works:
The organizing principle of cube farms is to place people with related tasks in close proximity to each other. At human scales, this will make the inhabitants of approximately 3 to 5 cubes in any direction (restricted to the horizontal plane) relevant to the average cube-dweller, who will then internalise the most [...]

Music + Science

Having siphoned energy away from a lot of my usual pursuits (okay, admittedly as part of a money-saving exercise after I spent too much on something silly), I have been channeling that energy toward music. As in, digital music composition… and it really is not good for my health… it entails even MORE hours in [...]

akismet woes…

[updated]. I have loved akismet up until now, but its incredible ability to hose up and hang the rest of my blogware whenever it isn’t happy has meant I’ve had to kick  it out of the playpen every once in a while.
My hosts had some libcurl issues which caused akismet to have a software app’s equivalent [...]

crimeware : your enemy’s enemy… is your best friend?!

Oh-hoh!!! WELL. I always figured this would happen. It’s been happening for a while, apparently, and it might be scant comfort for anyone left struggling with the dregs of a post-striated internet.
So the swarm of malware being volleyed over firewalls everywhere might just have a reckoning of an unexpected kind ahead of them: increasingly, infiltrating the [...]

The celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge really takes the cake.

Jorge Luis Borges, whose writing is mostly beyond me or just plain whizzes past above my head, has nevertheless (as he always does) written about a most intriguing thing. I don’t know how he finds his subject matter. Does he live and sleep at his local library or what? Is he even still alive? (google [...]

People who gum up the works

There is an entire ecology of interacting technologies, human-computer interfaces, and process spaces, which have co-evolved with the ballpark average of human modes of perception and problem-solving. (I like to call this ‘person-tech energetics’. Mainly because this is bound to irritate somebody. But if energetics is too hokey a word for you, substitute behaviour modes [...]

On following…

The other day, I noticed a new link in gmail. I am of course, talking of Google ‘Buzz’* : some facebook-esque, tweeterish thing that seems to have invaded the previously stark-and-therefore tranquil space that was my gmail account.
If only that was all.
Unfortunately being somewhat of a cat my curiosity got the better of me and [...]

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