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Monthly Archives: December 2011
hacker cooties
Posted by on December 24, 2011
I am definitely enjoying this, the tail end of 2011, living largely in disconnected mode, barely looking at news, catching up on books and movies. Come January, there will be time for frenetic engagement with the electronic world. Something I wanted to share though, was a fragment on Charlie Stross’s “how I got here in [...]
steve’s last theorem
Posted by on December 11, 2011
“I finally cracked it.” is what Steve Jobs told to Walter Isaacson when talking about a way to revolutionize TV. Given the usual insanity, wild extrapolation and rumor-mongering that goes on regarding upcoming Apple products, it’s no surprise that this got a lot of people excited. Aside from the typical unfounded speculation, see for example [...]
I for one welcome our new algorithmic overlords
Posted by on December 6, 2011
In recent weeks, “markets” (more specifically, bond markets, but that’s less important for this particular argument) have been directly responsible for the change in leadership in two countries (Greece and Italy) and at least indirectly responsible for the change in another (Spain — in the form of all sorts of perceived pressure on the electorate). [...]
dreaming it all up again
Posted by on December 3, 2011
“It’s no big deal, it’s just — we have to go away and … and dream it all up again.” U2 at the Point Depot, Dublin, December 30, 1989 Today was my last day at Ning. Seven years ago, almost to the day, I wrote on my weblog about looking for the next big thing, after [...]
