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Build me a future, splendid and graceful. Make it better by design.
I am unlikely to find the time to collate all my scattered notes into a complete annual summary. there seems to be a bit less of that about this year.
A lot from last year stands; the applied technologies continued to march along but we don't care like we used to about the streamlined Gernsback continuum; that's no longer automatic. Several ( Read more... ) -
We've all been changed from what we were
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If you want to know what I have done or am up to at present, ask me. The veracity of other people's beliefs and statements regarding me may vary.
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She pictures the center of it all
In recent news, Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space. And the nearest star - Alpha Centauri, has at least one planet (no, it can't be habitable, it may be earth-sized but the orbit is more like Mercury than Earth).
Herewith some back-of-the excel calculations based on Neil deGrasse Tyson's observation that " the corresponding fall (of ( Read more... ) -
In the year 2011: Politics, money, and other people stuff
Summary: Doom, gloom and Arab Springs.
Last years summary is here.
Most of it still rings true to me, most of it seems likely to come about. I thought we'd already seen the rioting in the streets then, but in August 2011 it started properlyThe future is here, just not evenly distributed. But we didn't expect it to come first to Arab North ( Read more... ) -
In the year 2011: technology.
Summary: Shiny new distractions, important new tools, softly totalitarian spyware, all on the same device.A few years ago I would travel without any device that could be called a computer. As a rule of thumb, if a device can render a web page it's a computer since it can run stored programs (the browser), scripts on the fly in the page and connect ( Read more... ) -
You still believe you're ruling the World, using all your tricks to keep the picture blurred.
2010: well, that was a year. It had the right number of days and everything. I confidently predict that 2011 will be the same ( Read more... ) -
2010
On a personal level it wasn't a bad year. It could have been better, but on the whole it was OK.
I'm still living near Holloway road. There was snow at both ends of the year. I sold a car and bought a bicycle. I would have sold the car sooner, but the January snow made that harder. I bought a Kindle 3, which I get a good amount of use from. I ( Read more... ) -
Turn and face the strange
What this guy said:
"Just a quick note that the fastest way you can get me to unfriend you is to cross-post anything in this LJ on Facebook.
I haven't cross-connected my FB identity to my LJ. There is a reason for this."
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You came on your own, that’s how you’ll leave, with hope in your hands and air to breathe.
Summary: A good weekend, safe travels, loads of good people and good music, 25 000 Germans all dressed up in black, and a little rain.
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