5 hours worth of mouse activity on my computer at work, while putting the finishing touches on my MSc thesis research proposal, ethics application, and supporting documents. Dark spots are where the mouse stopped moving (the big blob must be where I was doing a bunch of typing or something). Lines are where the mouse moved. Light circles are clicks.
High(er) resolution version on my Flickr account.
Read MoreI’ve been trying to find ways to reduce the amount of information about me that’s tracked every time I do anything online. I don’t like that every piece of activity is tracked, analyzed, and sold. I’ve said over and over, that if any government or agency had proposed tracking this much data on every citizen, there would be an uproar. But we just shrug it off when it’s done by the big online properties.
Read Morea series of composite images, produced from my 2010/365photos daily photo project. Each month was composited separately, and then a composite for the entire year was produced from the monthlies.
There’s a lower quality version on Vimeo but it’s been recompressed, so sucks a bit more.
Update: Now with an attempt at full html5 compatibility - MP4, OGV and WEBM formats. Yay!
Read MoreFrom Truthdig - Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion:
wherein I likely get added to a few more watch lists… the article is specifically about corruption of the political process in the US, but since we are tied so closely to them, much applies here as well.
on the shift in power from democracy to corporations:
> The complete surrendering of power, however, to corporate interests means that those of us who seek nonviolent yet profound change have no one within the power elite we can trust for support. The corporate coup has ossified the structures of power. It has obliterated all checks on corporate malfeasance. It has left us stripped of the tools of mass organization that once nudged the system forward toward justice.
Read MoreI took each photograph in my 2010/365photos set, and combined them using ImageMagick’s `convert *.jpg -average output.png` command to produce an image representing the average of all photographs. This is how a typical moment in 2010 looked:
stupid russian spambots are hammering this blog from multiple IP addresses, and getting through Akismet like a sieve. So, instead of trying to combat the mouthbreathing cretins using l337 script kiddie tools to pump their crap into the comments section of my blog, I’m disabling comments (again) until Akismet stops sucking.
thanks, komrades.
Read Morenot a navel-gazing retrospective. suck it.
In 2010 I wrote 273 posts and added 7 pages to this blog, with 144 attachments in total.
The number of posts in each month:
| January: | 15 (5.49%) |
| February: | 9 (3.3%) |
| March: | 33 (12.09%) |
| April: | 14 (5.13%) Read Moreon Gojira (1954)
But… There was a scene in a fishing village on the Island of Oda Island, where an elderly man was describing the rituals they used long ago to ward of Gojira. Human sacrifice. Ritual dances. Read Moreon breaking away from hosted silosThis is a long, rambling, incomplete blog post that’s been rattling around in my head for a week. I decided to try to just put something in writing to see if I could make it less unclear. Caveat emptor. If people are to manage their own content, forming their digital identities, they need a way to host software and content that doesn’t require obscure and detailed technical knowledge. Us early adopters are not normal. We’ve been so close to technologies, for so long, that we forget what it’s like to be new to the stuff. Or not to live and breathe tech every day. Most people are not like us. They don’t know what HTTP is. It’s just some silly letters before the address of a website. They don’t know what DNS is. They don’t know what FTP is. They don’t know what SSH is. Or MySQL. Or PHP. Or Perl. etc… Read MoreUnhosted: Breaking the SaaS Monopoly - ReadWriteCloud>The basic idea is this: an Unhosted app lives on a web server and contains only source code. That source code is executed on a user’s computer and encrypts and stores data on another server. That data never passes through the app server. Therefore, the app provider doesn’t have a monopoly on your data. And since that data is encrypted, it can’t be exploited by the data host either (or at least, it probably can’t). hey guys! wait up!
I can’t put my arms down! Read Morepost-delicious.com hysteriaIt looks like Yahoo! is going to kill/merge/mangle/whatever the delicious.com bookmarking service. Hysteria! Madness! I’ve used Delicious for over 6 years. I’ve got 3,298 bookmarks stored there, with 16,669 tags. There’s a handy dandy XML exporter that let me grab them all in one file. Then what? I could import easily to another third party service. But it’s likely that people will migrate to different services, so the network effects from Delicious are already evaporating. And any third party service will eventually die anyway. Read More |
Evan and I watched Gojira (1954) last night (thanks, Netflix!). We had fun reading the subtitles, and watching Gojira do his thing. A fun movie, with some surprisingly deep cultural subtext (the society of post-atomic Japan, a scientist conflicted over his creation of a doomsday weapon…).