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I totally owe my little brother. Thanks to him, last Friday, I got my hands on geek gold: a Google Wave invite. Five days in, I’m hooked. It’s an amazing platform. One of the things that strikes me, after playing around on it for a while, is how difficult it is to describe. My strong suspicion is [...] If you’ve never read Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, titled “As We May Think” on the task of making information more accessible, you have missed something amazing. Bush was the Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development in the United States during the Second World War. During that time, the office developed a remarkable [...] This awesome little program- free to download, allows you to surf the interwebs via a VPN, which of course cloaks your IP. Which means, if you’re using it, you can WATCH HULU FROM AUSTRALIA. Yeah yeah!!! Also, it should solve my potential problems with blogging [...] I walked out into the living room before, where my ever-industrious flatmate was working and watching The Simpsons on my Very Large Television. I sat for a moment, and laughed as Homer’s innie became an outie, from too much food. Then I started to think about the fact I can still laugh at the Simpsons, that [...] So it’s not been long, but my Facebook fast has been great. I had to break it briefly today to add somebody with whom I needed to get in contact, but beyond that sort of utility, I have no intention of using it again. It’s amazing how quickly I have gotten over the addiction. I highly recommend [...] |
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