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I blog, therefore I am

Posted by admin on December 29th, 2007

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One of [...]

walk to work or work to walk?

Posted by admin on October 27th, 2007

About 25 years ago I joked to some friends that human bipedal locomotion - walking, was nearly a thing of the past. I went so far as to suggest that legs could largely become vestigial appendages. Now I was 12 at the time, so very few of my friends knew what an appendage [...]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets [...]

Central vs Distributed, a familiar cycle

Posted by admin on October 1st, 2007

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized [...]

RE Surface - imaging is king

Posted by admin on September 26th, 2007

Imaging IS king. There are plenty of audiophiles out there who will argue with me, and certainly humans have a remarkable reaction to coordinated sounds, and an even stronger reaction to smells (nothing can evoke powerful memories of a place and time quite like an odor).
At the end of the day, however, we are [...]

ROI in a high tech jungle

Posted by admin on September 6th, 2007

Waking, I touch the lamp next to my bed, illuminating the room. Subtle pulses of colored light begin to dance on the lampshade intermixed with real time images from around the world, as the lamp bases subwoofer reverbs to the sounds of music created and uploaded by the newest online artists while I slept.
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