Category Archives: Diary

General comments of a diary, day-to-day nature

Hooray for Distributed Version Control. Boo for Dropbox

I’ve been having problems with Dropbox lately, not updating all files. I still haven’t got to the bottom of that but last night I worked on a Python script down our studio and wanted to polish it up at home … Continue reading

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Digital Dowsing 0.1

It’s been around enough in my mind (actually since the Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit [SPS]) to finally talk about it here. A mash-up of the esoteric and the technological – my nascent Digital Dowsing project. My dowsing weapons of choice are … Continue reading

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You’re the product, not the customer

Mathieu also pointed me towards this pertinent summation of Facebook, Google & Co: If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. blue_beetle, you said it very well.

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Memory Palace Operating System

A very inspiring talk tonight in Neukölln with Mathieu Baudier. He was talking about his vision for a file browser where instead of some hierarchical structure on the left hand panel (or in the case of mac, some shortcuts) and … Continue reading

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Leuven Orbital

With Iain Sinclair’s rather more epic journey in my mind as well as a book that I last read 22 years ago (thanks Dave), I decided to do what Riddley Walker (Russel Hoban 1980) would call a Fool’s Circel 9wys … Continue reading

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