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The lowly seer: December 2006
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Saturday, December 02, 2006. The most talked about news story in the UK right now has to be the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. The big question is by whom and why. Before he died, his associates in the UK were quick to point the finger at Putin, though it's worth pointing out that those associates use Tim Bell, Thatcher's former PR man as their spokesperson, which on discovering this immediately made me feel sceptical about the case. Some currency skullduggery been going on? I don't doubt MI5 and the...
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The lowly seer: November 2006
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Towards an anti-reductionalist software culture. A description of my particular utopian thinking will have to wait for another month's column, but I believe the most beautiful possibilities come from treating people as mysterious wells of meaning and using technology to find new ways to connect people to each other. Lanier, a pioneer of virtual reality, if not the. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 11:37 pm. Monday, November 27, 2006. The most interesting possibility to sort out al...
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The lowly seer: May 2006
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Sunday, May 28, 2006. If you don't know what it means, the answer's nothing really. It was invented by a couple of web pundits presumably to increase their esteem and to add more punditry to the saturated media. It refers to the current look and feel of sites and to their being in 'perpetual Beta' (a marketing term which means they update the technology occasionally). Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 8:46 am. Sunday, May 21, 2006. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 6:34 pm. The Electronic Mug's Game. So there we a...
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The lowly seer: September 2006
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Saturday, September 30, 2006. A bit of sense. Yet another West v Muslims article, but this one. By Hanif Kureishi seems to me to be far more on-target. We can say that the self-disgust of the west conveys a profound confusion about the way we view ourselves now. I think Kureishi inadvertently also hits on why Nichiren Buddhism has spread so slowly here:. And there's also the irony that the tool used to defeat the Soviet Union has morphed into the West's own nemesis. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 6:04 pm.
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The lowly seer: June 2006
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Thursday, June 29, 2006. Crime, insanity and a nice new pair of trainers. It's a world driven by competition for consumer goods and paid-for experiences, of hi-tech and high-end shopping signals that have become the means by which we keep score with each other. As the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman points out, to be a successful consumer now defines what it is to be "normal". Therefore to be "abnormal" is to be a failed consumer. The lot of the failed consumer is miserable. Hertz noted that "among high-incom...
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The lowly seer: August 2006
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Of "Light My Fire", which would have been late 60s. It may have been last weekend's glut of corporate festies that saw an outbreak of free festivals for the first time in years. The music biz drifting into dismal stodginess is not necessarily a bad thing. One of my mates always used to claim the band that was responsible for the mini-revolution of Britpunk wasn't the Sex Pistols but rather the Eagles. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 7:02 pm. Monday, August 28, 2006. Well, why not?
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The lowly seer: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. The internet reduces rape? Personally I'm rather unsure that you can find any definite link between the media and violent crime. This paper. Warning: .pdf), Pornography, Rape, and the Internet by Todd Kendall of the Department of Economics, Clemson University, Sept. 2006, comes up as a bit of a surprise. Thirdly, I use regression analysis with fixed state and year effects to show a negative. Correlation between internet access and rape, even controlling for a wide variety of ot...
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The lowly seer: April 2007
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Thursday, April 19, 2007. My most major client of recent years has at last gone live amid much blood, sweat and tears, it's at. All database-driven, XHTML / CSS and really quite tasty even if I do say so myself. A couple of highlights:. Has a framework into which I can add other non-standard products they arise. Vehicle to product finder. Makes selecting maintenance products for a car pretty easy using AJAX, it was derived from a vast amount of manufacturer's data. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 2:57 pm.
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The lowly seer: January 2007
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Thursday, January 25, 2007. Botnets overwhelming the net. Slight hyperbole, IMHO, but only slight. The problem yet again is Windows's poor security. Better still, if you're geek enough, ditch Windows for Linux (Ubuntu is rather tasty) or, wealthy enough, a Mac with OS X. Added to that I'd have to spend a good few quid upgrading my main pc to run it. so thankyou Microsoft, you've finally convinced me to buy a second-hand iMac instead. Posted by Les the Spaceman @ 11:16 pm. Saturday, January 13, 2007.
