mind on fire

Dream of an earth pig

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:11:24 +0000

It is a nondescript street. An animal approaches me steadily, until it is so close I recognise it as...

Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0: "The most typical mistake is to model emotions as a small number of intense states such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness"

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:16:24 +0000

Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0: "The most typical mistake is to model emotions as a small number of intense states such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness"

Ghost room (from a series of experimental photographs)

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:04:36 +0100

Ghost room (from a series of experimental photographs)

My threads of attention today

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:07:00 +0100

Ruby: making a little Sinatra app that tracks morning, afternoon and evening. Ruby: looking at...

retro terminal games

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:54:00 +0100

Emacs has some nice little games. Open a terminal and type: emacs hit: esc and the ‘X’...

‘It is better to have loved and lost’… but...

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:46:48 +0100

‘It is better to have loved and lost’… but without the other part from Tennyson’s 1850 poem In Memoriam:27: ‘than never to have loved at all’

Is it? And, if so, why?

Found on a wall in Holt, North Norfolk.

"we are in the midst of a generational shift in cognitive styles that poses significant challenges to..."

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:51:00 +0000

“we are in the midst of a generational shift in cognitive styles that poses significant...

Sharing my web3D pain

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:32:00 +0000

Okay. Despite the current renaissance of VRML as web 3D I’ve tried every single option on the...

write 14 songs in the 28 days of February

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:47:00 +0000

write 14 songs in the 28 days of February: I’m trying to do this. I’ve written 2 so...

"people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress… time pressure..."

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:09:08 +0000

“people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress… time...

A dream of bright blue birds

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:49:00 +0000

last night in my dreams I was talking with friends when two strikingly bright blue birds landed...

A snippet from Kevin Kelly's 'Out of Control':

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:53 +0000

Marvin Minsky: We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them...

Sunset at Little Dalby, Leicestershire. That’s me in the...

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:53:00 +0000

Sunset at Little Dalby, Leicestershire. That’s me in the sunlight…

Webstraction 2: from Unix history and Assembly language to DeLanda

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:06:00 +0000

I was reading chapter 2 of Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (complete with Lou and Andy-esque...

two natural encounters

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:05:00 +0000

9th December 2008: driving home at night, icy road, middle of the country, a white rabbit ran across...

JUDAS: a new acronym

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Jumps Up & Down And Screams (like they do on the telly). Invented on 14 December 2008.

noob comedy?

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:40:08 +0000

tech: you have to do it as root noob: sorry for another dumb question...but how do i do it as...

Last night in my dreams the shadow of a child stepped over my...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:00:48 +0000

Last night in my dreams the shadow of a child stepped over my sleeping body. It approached the door, turned and came back towards the edge of the bed, facing me with nothingness…

shark

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:31:50 +0000

I wish I had the purity of a shark Then, I could devour According to the dictates of instincts Free...

I saw this in the middle of nowhere (well, a small village in...

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:22:41 +0000

I saw this in the middle of nowhere (well, a small village in Leicestershire). I wanted to take it home and give it some serious TLC, but reason won out.