The collected works of frankblues

This is pretty cool:

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/28/tim-berners-lee-and-a-next-computer-in-olympics-openingceremony/

I should be clearer. I think Tim Berners Lee and a NeXT box (rumored to be the one he wrote the WWW browser on) at the Olympics is inherently cool. That the American commentators didn't know who he was is pretty lousy.

Social networking for the most part is crap. I think the signal to noise ratio in my twitter feed is maybe 0.5%. Same with my RSS reader. The inherent difference between the monkeys and the twitters is distance. I can read what the concerns are from someone half way around the world... that ease of access (relatively speaking) is new.

I grew up around Ham Radio - back in the day when talking to someone on the other side of the world (or in outer space) was unique and pretty amazing. Now, that's commonplace. We can (but often don't) discuss and think about things on a global scale.

I guess I have hope that we can think our way out of our problems. I also have a realistic streak that says things will have to get a whole lot worse for people to get off of our facebook-reading lazy behinds and actually do something about the problems hamei describes.

hamei wrote: There's not that much control over the scan - all you get is jpeg and whatever you set the scanner default to - but hey ! What other choice does one have for a current scanner in Irix ? Or Plan 9, for that matter ?

*twitch*

I'm trying to comprehend the idea of hamei using Plan 9...