the thermodynamic arrow of morality : take #2: it's all an illusion...

After an incredibly long discussion with The Mei over plates of Ethiopean goodness at The Sheba, which conversation was mediated by ToyZ, mainly bcos we barely let her get a word in edgeways, it was grandly concluded that human morality is largely immutable... so that any perceived increase in moral[...]

May 17, 2010 | Armchair Philosophy, Society and culture | Leave a Comment

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[...]

May 4, 2010 | Media, Science, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

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 eq[...]

April 26, 2010 | Computing & Software Systems, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

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[...]

April 7, 2010 | Computing & Software Systems, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part III

So in my previous two posts, I talked about how intranets need to mesh with the 'reality' of a particular organisation or business, and now in this post I just have some final thoughts on how the mechanics of that kind of meshing might look like. Basically, it's: Highjacking human interaction for[...]

April 4, 2010 | Business & Commerce | Leave a Comment

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part II

In the first post of this tiny series, I basically just oriented myself to the topic and declared my stance on social media to begin with! In this post I look at how social media at work can attempt to make itself relevant, and hopefully quantifiably so. As I have always said, social media needs [...]

March 29, 2010 | Business & Commerce | Leave a Comment

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part I

In a short series of 3 nibble-sized posts, I'm going write about some of the things I'm learning about a rapidly expanding field: Enterprise intranets - specifically the inclusion of social media platforms with the attendant folksonomies and enterprise search functionality. First off, I should de[...]

March 26, 2010 | Business & Commerce, Collective Intelligence, Computing & Software Systems, Networks, Society and culture | Leave a Comment

data, information, and the necessary delusions of purpose

In the same way that we kid ourselves that we are artists and writers, poets, lovers, mothers, Olympic sprinters, whatever... so too do corporate entities become mired in their own necessary delusions of purpose. But of course... I persist in my unholy (hollow?) belief that the one true original [...]

March 15, 2010 | Armchair Philosophy, Business & Commerce, Collective Intelligence | Leave a Comment

virulent clouds: crimeware-as-a-service

Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and... well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing: http://malwareint.blogspot.com/2010/01/crimeware-as-service-and-antivirus.html And it makes sense, doesn't [...]

March 7, 2010 | Computing & Software Systems, Networks | Leave a Comment

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? (googl[...]

February 22, 2010 | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

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