Archive for February, 2007
I have been thinking a lot about Photography lately. It is an interesting medium. Unmoving and frozen, it portrays a mythical existence, unknown in a normal experience of life. Pictures are interesting because of the density of information that can be delivered to a cognitive being… I guess that’s where the old “Thousand Words” quote [...]
Happy birthday to my lovely wife, Sara.
She makes me very happy and keeps me out of trouble…
I have been reading Kevin Kelly’s “Out of Control” for months now.
It is one of those books where you read a few pages, and then you need to go lay down.
It puts a zap on your head.
Anyway, he talks about Rodney Brooks’s generic recipe for distributed control:
Do simple things first.
Learn to do them flawlessly.
Add new [...]
I have tried to commit the time to doing this before, and I failed, but I shall try once again. There are a couple of cool projects that I am consulting on, at the moment… a world -wide game competition for the most successful video game of all time, and an online fashion magazine. My [...]