Villiers Street from above

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…

Now, where was I? Too many days with unreliable wifi… So day five was Friday, when i swapped Tuttle for Tyrol. This was to be the longest train day – 4.5 hours Vienna to Innsbruck, and hour stop and then another 4.5 hours Innsbruck to Milan. Phew – that’s a lotta train. Hotel Urania in…

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…

At the Science Museum’s Danacentre (nice space)for the Future Wireless event by Cybersalon & OpenSpectrumUK listening to Alexei Blinov and James Stevens talking about Hive Networks putting together a DIY infrastructure – an open backbone (sounds painful) According to the Hive Networks wiki “Hive Networks” is a cross-disciplinary research and development project into embedded devices…

I’m thinking a lot about the kinds of projects that I talked about a while ago, of which tuttle2texas turned out to be a prototype. Here’s one thing. They don’t have a specific output in view when we start them. So they might end up producing a book, or a film or a vook or…