Archive for February, 2010

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 [...]

On consensing…

We live in a much faster-paced world today than our ancestors did, and we have to make decisions very quickly (something that, as it turns out, I really, really suck at… but less of that, and more about what I intended to write about in the first place).
We like to reduce decision-making to the equivalent [...]