Infrastructure for Anarchists – 2 hours Outline of a talk I’ll be giving on Wednesday 7th of January at The Temporary School of Thought in London. See Six Ways To Die for a visual aid which talks about a lot of the material. Here’s the audio of the talk. – two promises: -1> I’m going [...]
Read more →Yesterday was another one of those “the internet brings the best out of people and the world” days. It started badly. My Macintosh decided it didn’t have a battery. Even though it did. That was really the last straw – case problems, screen flickering, these things were manageable. But a notebook that doesn’t know its [...]
Read more →First video from my new collaboration with Akvo, an open source water charity, working on getting ultra low cost videos made which explain their operations and make Akvo more transparent. This is 30 minutes from Mark on Akvopedia which is an open water technology resource. For commentary and making of, see The Akvo Blog. We’re [...]
Read more →Rapid move to take a gig with AKVO (everybody’s favorite water appropriate tech outfit!) helping out with a number of things, including video. So… game on. Who do I need to be meeting?!
Read more →via Louv Really, really good and interesting song. Just a little cheesy, but really nails a sense of the re-opening of the future. I’m packing for London. I have a feeling that I’m going to be doing a lot more traveling in the next couple of years than in the last few, so I’m sort [...]
Read more →Estimated time of stay: two months minimum. Will likely be back in Iceland after that.
Read more →1> The laptop is the new desktop – moving essential communications functions on to the Acer Aspire One (AA1) – leaves the MacBook as the workstation frees up a ton of ram, but more importantly, frees up focus. – it seems to be psychologically significant that the subnote is *small* – can’t say why – [...]
Read more →Gift from a dear friend who knows that my mac needs some time in the shop and that I could use a traveling machine. Wikipedia page on the AA1. Four thoughts. 1> Keyboard is very good for the size. 2> Machine is fast – subjectively faster than my Macbook for some operations. 3> Bundled software [...]
Read more →So this is one of those time periods during which I go through and cull things – what ideas are workable, which ideas are fail-laden monstrosities. There are a bunch of critical mass phenomena all heading in roughly the same direction at roughly the same speed, and now its a case of figuring out what [...]
Read more →Because these new mac laptops are gorgeous. (searching for the new equilibrium… what’s the sweet spot for maximum effectiveness? It’s between the gutter and the five star hotel, but where between?)
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