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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes youcome alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs ispeople who are alive." ?Harold Whitmanvia evhead

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I paid no attentionwhatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a joke which, in fact,they were if you discern anything funny in mawkish, obtuse mumblings onsubjects any intelligent person could master single-handed in a few months. Theexams I found childish and in fact the whole University concept I found to be asham. The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that

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Every so often our network printer stops responding when try to access it across the network.The printer is assigned a static IP 192.168.0.75and most of the other 13 device on the network have dynamic IPs which are assigned from 192.168.0.3 to 192.168.0.30Yet almost none of the other devices need the switch reset, and none so regularly. The suppliers warned against using dynamic IPs on the same

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Being using Ubuntu all the time since Michael worked out the Fon/ipv6 problem, made irritation is lack of sound so far followed the instructions on the ALSA site for the Intel sound card, Ubuntu recognises it as a Intel 82801DB-ICH4 and put all the volumes up to 100% no output.Flash and Skype are working though

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The Fon software appears to be glitchly, it worked the first time, could only login through IE in Firefox got the FON logo with Curro below it.I added in my address details on the site, told it to remember me in IE and Firefox, doesn't in either, restarted into Ubuntu, picked up the signal. Didn't ask me to login, got access to bloglines but no gmail, very weird, wireless worked in the office so

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Got a 100GB hard disk for the laptop, thanks to Fujistu's well organised site , it was easy to see which model I needed and what the differences would be ( more power and 3db louder, though it's barely noticeable ) The install on the vaio was very simple, unfortunately it is not mentioned in the upgrade section of the Vaio site or manual even though it is designed to be upgraded easily, strange?

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My linksys modem arrived today, plugged the fon router in and was up and going with wireless in Windows pretty quickly. Rebooted into Ubuntu, it caught the signal, left the password blank, went into firefox and I didn't need to log into Fon, Ubuntu discovered it needed updates, downloaded and installed them. Strange behaviour in Firefox though. I could access Bloglines ok, it was a little slow,

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Didn't realise Google Desktop Search's Index took up so much room, its over 2 gigs on my 40GB hard disk, don't know if its worth the space.Check out the size of the directory below if you use it.C:\Documents and Settings\"Windows User Name"\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search

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Frustrated with trying to get Flash Player for my N70. I give it the make, model, IMEI number and then proceed and 'An error has occured', tried buying it through their call centre, needs to be bought online. Appearantly their having a lot of problems with merging the Macromedia and Adobe products into one store.Still not sure why they are charging for it and not release it for free like their

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'Waste is a virtue in an advanced capitalist society' Probably a bad misquote from 'Dance, Dance, Dance'But this was something I believe Murakami was saying through his character. The novel is set in 80's Japan in the height of the prosperous boom, and the main character who lives relatively frugally seems saddened by the indulgent society.I feel this sometimes with myself, consumerism gets the

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Maxtor One Touch doesn't backup the system directory!From the Dialog you select the Hard Disk and all sub folders including the Windows directory is ticked. If you look at the Maxtor backup directory on your computer name, you will notice that the System directory is nowhere to be seenWhat a load of crap, the system directory is where outlook stores it pst file. It doesn't back that up.

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Second go with Ubuntu wasn't so successful, tried it on a recent dell with a ATI Radeon x600 as well as an on board graphics card, and the x server crashed, there is a lot of documentation on how to get it running on the forums. I guess with more recent boxes it takes a while for the new cards to be supported properly.Still going to try it on the old celeron 400mhz when I go back after I clear a

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Ubuntu is Really Simple Linux I put it on a old Celeron of a colleague that Blue Screened constantly on Win98Apart from the partition manager not making a swap space like I asked it to, it worked fine. I tried installing ndiswrapper to get it to recognise a wireless pci card but didn't manage, my own lack of perseverance.Chucked in a generic network card for a tenner and it worked straight off.

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Fly on the Wall: "Fire, aim"Endless invention, endless experiment,Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;…Where is the Life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?The lot of man is ceaseless labor,Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harderI say: take no thought of

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The new version of Nokia PC Suite seems to have sorted my USB connection problemsUsing the dialup connection, working well. BT seemed to have screwed up our line switchover from Edinburgh

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In order to appeal to this much wider consumer base, theywere generally re-tooled to appeal to the lowest-common denominator.For beer, this actually began during the war, when the militaryrequested beer for the troops that was watered down so as to avoidsoldiers too inebriated to fight. Many returned with a taste for thebland.

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Just found out that their is Fibre laid down around stornoway, with a throughtput of 26 megs. Only buildings linked in are Public Sector ones and the cost of connection to being for a commerical company to the fiber is £5K ( digging up the ground )That last few hundred metres with fibre is an expensive business.You can get access to the network through a wireless tower at Studio Alba with a

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"Purposeless play (is) an affirmation of life - not an attempt to bringorder out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simplyto wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent onceone gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its ownaccord."

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Children are a message to a future you will never see

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the shift from ownership to access, there is a subdominant theme: the pervasive commercialization of lives lived increasingly within networks of commodified access relationshipsBlogged with Flock

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They don't seem to have implemented the keyword shortcuts for bookmarks Blogged with Flock

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Try selecting HP Jet Direct instead of IP Printing for your network printer Worked in getting the Powerbook with Tiger talking to the Konica http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050506121833931 Blogged with Flock

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Test Post with Flock

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Printer Busy...The Minolta works fine with all Macs and PCs on the network except those running Tiger, very strange.It works fine with the desktops running Panther and can be printed too as a Generic Postscript Printer or with the specific Drivers, but the Tiger machines fail to communicate with it.They can still print to the Brother HL-1850, but I believe that is using appletalk.

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Adding a Netgear WG602 accesspoint on to the network, tried to add to add it as a repeater to the DG384G which appearantly can't be done, you need two WG602 to do it.Tried using it as an access point without security works fine, tried switching on WEP managed to connect to it but no further connectivity. Switched to WPA works fine.Weird?

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Arhh, the real power of the network — circumvention!Why SecondLife/Flickr Mashup is REALLY cool…

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Having many devices attached to one powered Firewire Hub can cause those devices which recieve power over Firewire like Miglia Director's Cut to stop working.

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Wondering if there is any GIS standard that SatNav systems use that allow for viewing of annotated information about a location with links, or descriptions?Are the software all closed silos or can you being to plug stuff into them, GoogleMaps and Earth are good examples of what you can do when open an api to become a platform, have any of the handheld or car system looked into this?There are

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"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's,"William Blake

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cluetrain.com

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src="http://www.cluetrain.com/not.gif"/ />cluetrain.com

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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depthand history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated,mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold tothe people you hate." Link

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“nothing that is read with pleasure was written without pain”Samuel Johnson

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At one time I would have said that it is absurd to keep alive anarchaic language like Gaelic, spoken by only a few hundred thousandpeople. Now I am not so sure. To begin with, if people feel that theyhave a special culture which ought to be preserved, and that thelanguage is part of it, difficulties should not be put in their waywhen they want their children to learn it properly. Secondly, it

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Originally uploaded by James Morrison. Photographs are important because of the connection you have with them. This reminds me of feeling low after Mysterian went bust and unsure of the future. I find it interesting to compare with when I visited the Loch for the second time a few weeks ago, happier at the beginning of a longer journey, yet the people that I share these can no nothing

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Make a wish Originally uploaded by James Morrison. Flickr is an incredible piece of software, I'll have been using it for almost two years soon. Thanks for creating it.

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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those welove. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changedperson.W. Somerset Maugham

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He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself withoutlessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives lightwithout darkening me.Thomas Jefferson

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Arriving at the kingshouse hotel today, I removed my boots and socks which were dripping, my feet appeared to steam as moisture evaporated of them in the cold air of the porch. The rannoch moor is beautiful not as different from the lewis moor as i had imagined but you are surrounded by beautiful hills like etive mor. The devil's staircase tomorrow

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With all the technology we have, I don't think anywhere near enough research has been done on the application of this for people with impaired mobility.My father has had no movement in his left hand side for three years and I come back and show him the 'wonderful' tech of hard disk mp3 players/ wireless laptops and bluetooth phones, but it makes no difference to his quality of life.I have a real

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I felt the conference was a success over the last two daysThe recording of the breakouts didn't go great, but I should be able to put up the keynotes, panels + q up soon.I've setup a Basecamp site for discussion of the Conference where people can carry on the discussion, share notes etcI don't want the momentum generated by the conference to come to a stop so I'm planning on setting up a Iul

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The message from my N70 when I try and use the main camera on it 'Hardware failure: restart Camera' I was taking a video with it last night, 10 minutes after charging it from dead, while doing a call with loudspeaker at the same time. It started beeping quite a lot, I think the flash being used with the encoding drained the battery faster than it was getting charged, and just died I had to leave

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On the way down from inverness on friday evening the train was 44 minutes late getting in. Not unusual i believe. A taxi was put on from perth. Which gives me an idea why my fair cost almost £40 Everybody in the taxi lived in the north of scotland and going to meet their partner who lived around edinburgh. Yesterday arriving just in time for the perth train from haymarket. The machine refused my

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Dangers of Multiple tabs and logging onto wifiI noticed while trying to log into fon today that the login screen came up in the bloglines feed frame, I wonder if this is what was happening with thecloud too?Serenity is a great movie, well worthing watching.

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120 day trialDefinitely going to order a fon router for my next wifi connection

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\ />Why is it such a hellishly confusing experience?Today is the last time I will enter an Orange Shop.My partner and I were quite prepared to spend £60 a month but we came out of the shop with nothing.I have now ordered my new N70 through the orange website, which did not seem to offer such a good deal but it was a much less confusing experience.There deals change so frequently it seems the '

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The Cloud was slow, expensive and unreliableI had to nick the ethernet cable out of the back of one of the Hotel Desktop, thanks to the staff, £9.99 for 24 hours of which I was able to use hour.Last time I use them

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I just bought a book from the Amazon marketplace, for 1p + £2.75 postage from a charity, it is weird and wonderful that the book can be shipped from the U.S. so cheaply ( its in not great condition but still )

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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs on the past. Wislawa SzymborskaFrom the Clock of the Long Now

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I will not fearFear is the mindkiller,Fear is the little deathThat brings total OblivionI will permit my fear to passOver me and through meAnd where it has goneI will turn the inner eyeNothing will be thereOnly I will remain.From Dune

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I set the alarm on my phone, and it had run out of battery.Worried that I would not get up in time I didn't sleep properly.My appearantly dead phone, woke up at alarm time ringing!and asked if I wanted the phone turned onThat is a well designed feature, perhaps it has been in phones for ages.Smart design Nokia

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With the announcement of Google selling video, I hope this will spur those companies sitting on rich archives of niche media to release some of their content and make revenue on it as well.This long tail of culturally as well as economically valuable media should be made easily accessible and plough any revenues recieved from it into the production of new projects or archiving more.The items

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Caught up with some podcasts on the journey to Lewis, particularly interesting was File on 4They interview government environment minister Elliot Morley and itsbecomes clear that his department ( which has a public serviceagreement ) is hamstrung by other departments such Office of the DeputyPrime Minister and Treasury ( which don't have public service agreements ). Iget the feeling that the

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Finding the Tax Return a frustrating business, not being helped by waiting for Unique Taxpayer Code and Activation Pin to be posted.Help Notes

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Open source currency reminds of the Local exchange trading system I was talking to a man from Moray about, lots of them around the UK may see if there is one in the Western Isles. :: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog :: So instead of having to involve the Fed in every transaction — and using money that requires being paid back with interest — we can invent our own currencies and create value with our

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Performancing doesn't handle ampersands well

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'like a distributed R and D lab' Brendan Eich describing the extensions community around firefox

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'like a distributed R lab' Brendan Eich describing the extensions community around firefox

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Performancing lost my first proper post Grrr

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Testing 2

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Testing

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Every so often I recieve mail for jamesmorrison@gmail.com which isn't meant for me on my james.morrison gmail account they don't appear to be spam messages I've contacted google about the problem but didn't get any reply, I forwarded the mail on to that address but I don't recieve it in my inbox and recieve no reply.Does gmail ignore dots in addresses before the @ symbol if so why don't I recieve

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Ipsos the company who recently bought Mori, their slogan is 'NOBODY'S UNPREDICTABLE'. I find their is a kind of irony with all the company slogans 'Think Different','Just Do It'. Choose your own way to do things. But all these companies public bodies get their information from organisations who think nobodies unpredictable.Reminds me of the last episode of the Century of the Self. Where they look

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Working at Mori, I find it amazing the inefficiency of telephone surveys. The average success rate is 1 completed survey every 2 hours. With wages from 5.25 up its probably minimum £11 per successful survey. 50 people working 11 hours = 550 man hours550/2=275 surveys per day 50 days*275=13750 surveys *£11 cost per survey= £151250Estimated cost. Add creation of questionnaire, supervisation,

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Searching for feedback on the Long Now Seminar given by the Dysons. Through feedster I found Jacob Appelbaum's photo set which are licensed under the CC share a like so I added them into the dyson's wikipedia articles. I noticed his Hurricane Rita set, and remembered his name from Boing Boing. I listened to his interview with Chris Pirillo, I'd highly recommend listening to it. He went to Iraq

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The Ascent of ManI've been renting it of Amazon for the last few months ( 4 DVDs, 13 Episodes ). It is without doubt the best set of doucmentaries I have watched. Jacob Bronowski the presenter has a great style, In the Extras Attenborough comments on him having an actors timing. He stops and lets the information sink in, before he takes it to the next level. The locations and camera work are

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Skigersta, Isle of Lewis Originally uploaded by Bluewave. I went out there once, and sat on the front windown ledge of the house, its getting close to the edge of the cliff now with erosion and wondered what it was like for him living here. My mum told me the story of how they were short of food, and supplies were washed ashore from a shipwreck.God Saves His Children?

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First Group Scot Rail Pricing PolicyIt is cheaper to get split a journey into two parts and pay seperately than to make the journey on one ticket.So in the case of Edinburgh>Inverness you can get Edinburgh>Perth then Perth>Inverness Cheaper???Also monday was a bank holiday so you could get Cheap Tickets for any time of the day, this wasn't displayed on the automated ticket machine I usedIt should

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Thinking about Gatto, its hard to sum the book because it contains so much.Hard to comment on because he wants to destroy the current system of compulsion schooling, which he provides a lot of evidence for doing.Hard because we have all been through the schooling system and choice never entered into it, and so many people are employed by it While at home I asked at home my mum if she thought

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Relistened to Spencer Beebes talk on the way down from Skye in the car. It was good context, because there is a lot of plantations and what appears to be patch cutting and thinning taking place in the highlands.The part of the talk that really got to me again was his decription of how they helped to unite the tribe. There was a high suicide rate amongst the natives something the highlands also

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With the price of fuel in Lewis heading over a £1, I think we should look be looking at realistic alternatives from fossil fuel. I looked at biodiesel a while back and it must be becoming viable in the face of the high prices we are currently seeing. I wonder what could be used as a source locally, I would think Algae would be the most promising considering the islands. This study looks at using

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Listened to Spencer Beele's talk from the long now seminars. He set up the ecotrust to support the preservation of the worlds largest temperate forest, on the west coast of north america. They take core samples from the bogs and examine the pollen to see which trees were present thousands of years ago. They setup a lodge there and its had 95% occupancy for the whole year. People go up there for

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Just reading Richard Dawkins 1996 Richard Dimbleby lecture, lectures seem like an excellent candidate for podcasting, even if they are broadcast on TV. No reason why they could be podcast?

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Brian Eno talked about the powerlessness the Art Students felt when he spoke to them after the big anti wars marches in London. Which the government effectively ignored. I felt something similar, over the last week watching and participating in protests in Edinburgh, the way they were smothered by police and no surpises the little violence occupied the majority of the stories.Eno's idea was 250

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Listening to Brian Eno in his long now seminar. He talks about the Big Here effect of seeing the world from space that the Space Programme and how the long now foundation want to create the same effect for time. I've been thinking about Google Earth and its impact on our perception of the world, being able to navigate it at speed with satellite imagery and what effect this will have on our

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BBC News had a week on Climate Change last summer. They had a family which they visited for a week to try and reduce their energy use. The energy expert guy had this cool electricity meter which you plugged into one of your sockets and then you plugged whatever device you use normally in that socket and it counts how much energy you use on that socket or device, I think this would be quite

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I read Against the Odds by James Dyson several months ago, and in the last part of the book, it was a revised edition, it had information on a pollution reducing device that he was developing and petitioning the UK government to support.Searching the web I can't find any information about it, it seemed to be a filter that collected large particles that you could fit to your exhaust and empty

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"It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs." Kenneth Clark

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I have real problems with accounting for time in my work. I'm not sure where this fear comes from?Perhaps its because my mind drifts and I sometimes spend time editing and reading the wikipedia.I don't feel I should be micro managed by my self, I should flow.The fact I won't come up to scratch when accounted, a fear of failure, which extends my procastination.I know that their is power in self

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I've been reading Martin Fowler's Refactoring for the last week for half an hour before I switch the computer on and start work. Every day I'm able to apply some of the refactorings to my code and I notice that when I am coding my behaviour is beginning to switch to a do step of the refactoring, test, step, test and so on. This allows me to find any error a lot quicker. I knew this before but I

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Has anybody else been having trouble downloading the new BBC podcasts?My email to them:Hi I'm having problems downloading from your new podcasts feeds, I've been subscribed to In Our Time for the last few months and it works fine downloading the episode in Doppler but when I've tried adding "In Business", "From Our Own Correspondents" and "Gaelic Letter"This is the doppler error[25/05/2005 12:34:

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Got a Zen Touch on Friday, we bought a Muvo back at Christmas and liked it, but found sharing it between our different tastes in audio there was very little space to fit files on.The Zen Touch seems a solidly built player, its weighs a bit, but the battery life and the capacity make up for that. Took about four hours on first charge. It switchs on instantly no boot up like the muvo does. The

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Reading Martin Fowler's Refactoring and Flow: The Physcology of Happiness. When Csikszentmihalyi talks about the requirements to be in flow one is immediate positive feedback, for the climber it is moving further up the mountain, and in the case of the programmer it is the passing test suite after each step of your refactoring.One of the problems on my current project, the main test suite is

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Reading more of The Underground History of American Education, In the first chapter Gatto looks at the beginning's of American Education and takes as examples famous Americans such as Washington, Franklin and Edison. The lack of formal education these men recieved, they were mostly self taught. Can you imagine these characters trying to be fitted into todays convential schooling they would be

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Recently while reading Getting Flat Part 2 by Doc Searls and reading some of John Taylor Gatto, I've been thinking about my own time at school.I was doing some homework for a subject I enjoyed and was good at and I questioned the question I was asked in the margin of the page alongside my answer. When I the work was returned to me, my question was underlined and was labelled as inappropriate.This

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The Clouds are formingMost of the cafes around where I live are in range of an open Wireless Access Point.I find my environment very important when working and I feel a change in environment can change the way I think about a problem as it did this morning.So I find these WAPs very useful, I understand my communication isn't secure but I also use Groove which provides its own encryption. I

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Watching Adam Curtis series' The Century of Self. Fascinating programmes that look at our changing perceptions of ourselves through the century and how it has been used in wartime with propaganda and by Corporations and Politicans in the later part of the century. Available from UKNovaFound it after watching his other excellant series The Power of NightmaresIts a real shame that both these series

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Buying a LaptopLast weekend was using my mates Tiny laptop wirelessly on the couch and decided I needed to get one, my current work environment( read cupboard ) is cramped. Cost was my main constraining factor definitely under a grand. I liked my friends 12" iBook and was looking for something similarly compact but Windows due to my interest in Groove. Having been suggested Pricerunner, I found

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Just started reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler, reading through Chapter 1, I decided to go back to Eclipse and try the Built in Refactoring tools like Extract Method (Alt+Shift+M), just after quarter of an hour of use I'm finding them incredibly useful. But I was uncertain how they worked until reading Fowler examples in the books, I Highly recommend it to anyone developing Java in Eclipse

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Media Sharing Recently I have been recording the books I'm interested in and check Glasgows library catalogue to see if it is available in a nearby library and if so bookmark it in del.icio.us with toBorrow, so when I plan to go to the library I have something to check. I also started adding Amazon DVDs under toRent. Earlier this year I came across the Distributed Library Project UK, after

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I'm trialling Activewords.com, finding it to be a useful application,but have removed it due to having speed problems on the PC, alsoremoved Google desktop, seems a bit faster now.Looking for a replacement for Activewords substitute text within Firefox.I seem to remember a form autofill functionKeywords on Bookmark(let)s are very handy

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Watching Horizon ( Saturn - Lord of the Rings ) downloaded via BitTorrent as PVR failed to record it on Thursday Reading System of the World, its a great book. Imagining a time when I can read books on the computer and words become links, wikipedise this page - google define bookmarklet

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Installed Google Desktop after reading Raels article, hadn't tried it out but my partner used the PC later and couldn't find her CV on floppy so she was looking for information on one of her old employers on Google and when she typed their name into the google box the first thing below was '1 result stored on your computer' cv3.doc :) She thought it was fantastic, Google have integrated

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Testposted by James Morrison at 18:27

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Software Corollary to Metcalfe's Law ( from Ray Ozzie in a Gillmor Gang episode named by Mike Vizard ) 2min Audio Clip The value of a collaboration environment rises as a function of how fit for purpose it is ... The phone is a very useful collaboration tool as is email and they're very horizontal but the more the environment matches the nature of the job function, the vertical profession the

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Reed's Law The number of distinct subgroups that can form in a set of N members is 2N, which means that the number and value of group-forming options grow exponentially as N increases. This maps on to the Group forming options that groove allows creating spaces with other members of the set. Taking the set as the contacts listed on Groove.net, the ones that I would form subgroups with would be

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Thinking about Groove development, there doesn't seem to be as much of a community or viral feel, perhaps this is because the nature of the spaces are private, I understand this a powerful advantage but in getting people using the system in the first place there needs to be more of an incentive there. There is the fiscal cost of entry for ordinary users. I can invite people into a space via email

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Playing around with TabBrowser Extensions on FireFox and looking at its ability to save a group of of tabs. This reminded me of the Groove client with its tabbed tools The groove tools have much tighter integration, the tools I use in my firefox tabs are much more loosely coupled, If I email an item from bloglines to a friend they are likely to respond to me via Gmail or IM ( MSN is available

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Reminds me of the clips in Strange Days

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