Bitwise Evolution

Musings of a Portland-area hacker with a bent on improving digital lifestyles.

Category: random

Like food?

I started writing for another blog this week: Brewed, Bottled, Cultured and Sweetened is a blog about beer, coffee, wine, cheese, chocolate, etc… that I’m writing with an old friend from Dagit.o

The Matrix is under construction

<blink>12:00</blink> Artificial Intelligence is a term with a great deal of accumulated baggage. Throughout the years sci-fi authors and screenwriters have depicted AI as a marvelous double-edged sword. On one hand, the benefits of ‘AI’ are myriad–free, inexhaustible and ethical sources of labour could greatly increase our productivity, even to a point beyond that of [...]

In agreement at last..

Finally, windows did something I agree with: If only it had caught itself during the OS install instead of just a measly user-space app… Maybe this has been fixed in Vista… (…could that be the reason it’s still not out? I suppose I shouldn’t get my hopes up.)

Playing with Deepest Sender

I ran across Deepest Sender, a firefox extension used for posting to a blog, today and thought I’d give it a shot. It supports a small, but reasonable set of blog apps (WordPress, LJ, … two or three others that escape me at the moment, and I can’t find the list right now..) Setup was [...]

2005 in cities

Copying an idea seen on Join-The-Dots: Portland, OR Corvallis, OR Seattle, WA Los Angeles, CA San Diego, CA Twin Falls, ID Jackson Hole, WY Lincoln, NE Chicago, IL DeBois, PA New York, NY Toledo, OH Ogden, UT One or more nights in each city. Now, if only I had some ground-breaking reason for being in [...]

Distributed Communication

Over the past year, the people I know well have become quite scattered across the nation, if not the globe. As a result, I’m left wanting to keep up to date with friends in Southern California, Oregon, New York, Boston, Nebraska, Britain (for a while), Seattle, and at the moment, a body of water in [...]