Posted in Cultural, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Immersed in War of the Worlds, Live on Stage! I can’t quite imagine how one could, audio-visually, make oneself feel any smaller… (and, in my case, deafer :-) )
A fantastic tale - an amazing concert - many talents - the story, a good way of reinforcing the hopelessness we live in, even in fantasy - [...]
Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This is the most awesome piece of video art I have ever seen. In two parts.
Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
That, the title, an infamous media line, immortalised by ‘The Dude’ in the cult classic The Big Lebowski.
But that’s not what I came here to talk about…
(another infamous line, coined by Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant)
Both, in their way, are about what I’m thinking about writing about. I’ve observed a thematic tendency to my [...]
Posted in Technology, The System Admin Zone on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Emulation is one thing and virtualisation is another.
And virtualisation is now mainstream with good, free, tools available for all three main host operating systems (OS): Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.
For Windows and Mac you can use MS Virtual PC (in reality on a Mac OSX, PowerPC system, this is an emulator of course).
VirtualBox, also free, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a great story in the Austin American Statesmen (via Endgadget) of an 8 year old kid who did some software testing for a silicon valley chip-maker Actel. A $250 electronics store gift voucher was his reward.
It seems to fit in with a previous story of mine about the burning desire to learn and [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Building Websites, Technology, The Main Thread on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Well today, or more precisely what’s left of it in the US, the 4th of October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Neat… why haven’t we gone to Mars yet?
Off to TechCrunch40 (thanks to ‘mac’ for his observations) where one of the things which caught my eye was that there were a [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife on Oct 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I have to say that I spend little, to no, time in Second Life these days - preferring to observe the most recent predictions of its impending collapse (what? again?…) from the reality of physical-ness - sitting in front my computer and web browser (I’m sure there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere).
It is true, in [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
We have all heard of Wikipedia…
But do you know about Wikinews, or Wikibooks, or a host of other concurrent projects that the Wikimedia Foundation run on over 100 servers based in Florida, The Netherlands and Korea?
Whilst researching the Wikimedia Foundation I found the information I wanted and, as is usual with the Internet, quite a [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Canberra, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
And, while we are on ‘personal knowledge‘, its nice to see the young people of Canberra expressing themselves thoughtfully through their creativity.
‘Better Moments’ …
a good song by Nat and Julz…
and a nice video by 17 year old Andrew Babington.
I was led here by the Lights! Canberra! Action! filmmaking festival - which I bumped into whilst [...]