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Another gap in posts for this blog; sorry. (Not that there’s anyone reading this to say sorry to, but as they say: meh.) It’s not that I haven’t been writing lately, I have, but in places that the web doesn’t reach; I’ve been enjoying that. But it’s four-thirty on a Thursday afternoon and I’m at [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, boredom, how I write, Investigation, keyboard vs. pen, Speed, Things, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I’m writing a more in-depth article on this topic at the moment, and I’ll post it soon, but for now I just want to mention a couple of things. The team that I am part of at IBM looks after servers that are spread over two different data-centres, one just across the road from us, [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, Canberra, Place, Speed, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
…I really don’t like being honked at by lone occupants of four-wheel drives! Me get off the road?! Why don’t they get off their stupid arses!?
[Keywords: People, Speed, Transport] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve been walking lately. To university, to the co-op, and home again: along Sullivan’s Creek I go, sort of following the bike path and generally veering off and strolling quietly through grassy, damp, tree-lined avenues. It’s nice, as nice as anything really, these quiet moments of stillness amongst the green, and I notice the small [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Gardening, Place, Speed, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
From Mr Tom Hodgkinson (of Idle fame), and HRH The Duke of Rothesay (lovely three-piece), comes a jolly sensible implore to slow down. May we heed it gratefully.
[Keywords: People, Speed] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Kingston railway station waiting room. Feeling slightly queezy from the bus, but excited also to be off with a bag, book and journal. Not that there’s much beauty in the modern transport world; the telly is on behind me, playing the most banal, hideous, daytime television — but what else is to be expected? They [...]
[Keywords: photography, Railway, Speed, Transport] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The speed at which one is required to respond in various forms of a) long-distance communication, and b) woodworking. I have been thinking about the various forms of long-distance communication that are in common use, such as email, telephone, and snail mail, and in particular the length of time each gives one to respond to [...]
[Keywords: attention to process, communication, correspondence, email, sawing, slowing down, Speed, speed of response, time] [No comments] [Permanent link]
