I just bought a 1inch to 55miles map of the USA for plotting out the physical locations of my "safety net" – yes I shall also be using Google Maps to show things online, but I always like to get a nice analogue feel for what I'm doing.
I also purchased three empty, plain moleskine journals for the racing prototype. i shall show these off at #tuttle in the morning before setting them free into the wild.Originally posted on Tuttle2Texas2Here’s me, frowning into the sun at Austin Amtrak station. I wasn’t really that frowny, just had the sun in my eyes. I wasn’t as euphoric as I had been exactly 1 year earlier though either. Then I was humming “Homeward Bound” to myself. This time I knew I was only just half way through…
“You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a baby” I spotted this while flicking through @kamintone‘s bound collection of The Melody Maker (Syncopation and Dance Band News) from 1931. Note it talks about “Unlawful importation” as well as performance – looks like even possession of copyrighted American arrangements would get you in trouble.
So I had a go and made a new copy at http://mostinteresting2.wordpress.com WordPress.com has an importer for posterous (look under Tools in your WP.com dashboard). I chose to test it with mostinteresting since each post should follow a fairly standard structure and it should be straightforward to see where things don’t show up the way…
In In The Absence Of The Sacred (1991), Jerry Mander wrote: “The corporation is not as subject to human control as most people believe it is; rather, it is an autonomous technical structure that behaves by a system of logic uniquely well suited to its primary function: to give birth and impetus to profitable new technological…
One of the big lessons I learned this year from fundraising is not to rely on *anything* at all until it's in my account. I had a few potential corporate sponsorship deals in the pipeline and I guessed that at least one of them would come through either before or during the trip. None of…
I’m speaking next week at Online Information, the huge VNU information management conference and show at Olympia. I’m going to be speaking on wikis in a session on Wednesday led off by Jimbo Wales. So, nervous and unconfident about what I’m going to have to say to add to the wisdom of His Worshipful Wikipedianess?…