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tartley.comSo earlier tonight I turned up at the monthly ‘surgery’ of my MP, Frank Dobson (Labour), to present my objections to the Digital Economy Bill. For the benefit of others also going to tackle Mr Dobson on this issue, (and anyone going to see some other MP) here’s a quick write up of my experiences: [...]
by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (1990) A quick re-read, inspired by a recent visit to the Science Museum, where we were enthralled by our meanderings around various astonishing artifacts: The rickety-looking Apollo 10 capsule, charred from re-entry, having journeyed to within 9 miles of the moon and back again. Stevenson’s Rocket, not, as I [...]
Launches a new blog, at a shiny new permenant URL.
moar funny pictures With thanks to KT for the pic of Penn and Flannery spawn, ickle diddums.
I’ve always been intrigued by OpenID, while simultaneously being repulsed by the identifiers that I thought users were forced to adopt. Seeing one too many strings like: https://me.yahoo.com/a/.DuSz_IEq5Vw5NZLAHUFHWEKLSfQnRFuebro- tossed around made me think I’d have to adopt a username like that, which obviously is never going to wash, for aesthetic and typability reasons alone. Fortunately [...]
Me and the missus slung 200 feet in the air in a spherical 10 foot roll cage, on board the ‘Slingshot’ on the opening night of the Steel County Fair, Minnesota.
Over the summer I’ve been keeping a geographic journal of some of our recent adventures: The Minnesota project : our summer in Blooming Prairie CO to CA : our summer roadtrip It’s an amusing journalling project for me, but as an exercise in neogeography (the distainful term Geographic Information System pros use to describe such [...]
