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Believing we have all the technology we’ll ever need, we seek to draw attention to its destructive side effects. This seems foolish… —Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation It is the first day of a new month. Does that mean anything? Not really, but it’s a convenient thing to kick me in to writing again. Can we [...]
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A car-free web database geek, recording this and that in the digital memex, mapping and walking in Fremantle, striving for a bit of simplicity, and now and then building bits of wooden furniture by hand. In descending order of frequency of use.
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Wilson childhood semantic web Wordsworth luddism In support of I.T. South Beach bibliography LibraryThing Gaston Bachelard Drupal Cantonment Hill HTML PDF JPG Literate Programming javadoc Donald Knuth GIS MGA UTM bc_base_convert Morton codes Z-order (curve) Food Co-op Zend columns sessions URI redirecting Casio F-91W watches timekeeping I.T. PDFs concatenation image manipulation Federal Election 2007 voting STV Commons O'Connor Community Garden Edmund Street collaboration causes Richard Stallman RMS Free Software Foundation GNU David Clarke themes skinning design TwentyTen porting Pecl journalism e-volunteering date ranges Semantic MediaWiki calendar temporal reasoning Kieran Benton Stack Overflow code snippets The Guardian Cory Doctorow ThinkPad RSS Twitter FreoWiki Ben Kafka paperwork Information Technology ICT bricklaying houses GLAM punctuation logic Slate Ben Yagoda Chicago Manual of Style Open Data Kit ODK OpenRosa data collection Roundhouse Captains Lane West End Heritage interpretation Internet Society ISOC jQuery validation selecting Fremantle Council precincts Hilton revolution Figo's tabular forms X-Wray FICRA identity gmail Marco Arment Neal Stephenson imagination doubt optimism Carrington Street suburbia landscape kitchens renovating alcohol joy rants sheds Walter Scott Waverley Pink Dandelion Oxford University Press externals Project Management revision control Travels with Charley America dogs Occupy Android decentralisation Code Complete Steve McConnell Brian Kernighan P. J. Plauger Compton MacKenzie Scotland hiking Carnival nomenclature organisation Mocca Lounge digitisation P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life George Steiner culture silence roots Western Australia Boring Kevin Kelly The European epub exporting typography Internet Archive Brewster Kahle Mac OS Apple fandom Douglas Adams Open Source activism gratis libre free as in speech X220 Richard Flanagan And what do you do Mr Gable? Cockburn ripping sawdust hand tools cutlery drawer ninthfloor.org hosting beards git version control GraphViz graphics Victoria Quay Lyneham permanence Manton Reece rsync.net offsite svn wget Firefox cookies static web pages passwords Hamilton Road GPS JOSM redaction walking Manning Park Watsonia barbecues Unesco ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description J K Huysmans binding Wikimedia Australia societies foreign keys Wiki Wednesday Roel Loopers bookbinding bookpresses ANU School of Art date formatting dates batch files variables George Eliot Silas Marner filenames renaming deleting debugging MIME types Theo Coulthard Behind the Lines audio Rails Through the Bush sources calendars rotation scheduling mtools FAT system administration Coledale words Phoebe Ayers printing Freopedia editing MultiViews Apache servers index.php forums feedback maximums social media intellectual property walled-gardens Clare Davies exhibitions art reticulation water gardens John Naughton Tim Berners-Lee Kobo Kobo Mini ereaders reviews syncin bus stops GluePHP routing URLs extensions City of Fremantle Planet Freo Freo W. B. Kimberly Abrolhos Islands PLUG Perth Linux Users Group syncronization Thunderbird scripts mail mbox notes backing up Wikiteam
