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The Matrix is under construction

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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 reason, allowing everyone to […]


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..) […]


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

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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 […]