Let’s have a debate

A post on perfect.co.uk caught my eye today. Charlie Whitaker wrote: “Let’s have a debate about distributed power generation. No, let’s not. Let’s just start doing it.” While free speech is under threat in this country, I’d like to board the band-wagon and request we ban the terms ‘have a debate’ and while we’re at [...]

Going Postal

This is one of the the weirdest and funniest interview I’ve read for a while from the publisher of ultra-violent video game POSTAL: http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/view.php?ID=367&Page=1 Verges from insight into customer service in a small company – “We haven’t done anything special for any audience, we’re just too small of a company, but the one thing we [...]

On not blogging

The terrible events of these past weeks have made blogging difficult. It seems wrong to have a voice – no matter how quiet – and an audience – no matter how small – and not talk about what’s happening in my country. I’m breaking all kinds of self-imposed rules about what I thought was appropriate [...]

Somewhere in hell, the devil is skating

That’s it, I’ve reached the tipping point. Unlearn I must. I was an early evangelist of Google, but recently it seems that Yahoo is so much better in finding those things I’m interested in. Google’s indices seem to be weeks out of date, and my search needs are often for pages that have appeared in [...]

Drive-by data

Something important is being said here about community, data and old-school protectionism. For the life of me I can’t fathom what it means, but I’ll be watching this debate closely.