WordPress, Time Obsessions

Finally got around to upgrad­ing WordPress to 3.0.1, and it seems much nicer than the 2.9.2 ver­sion I was using. I also switched away from the old fcgid con­fig­u­ra­tion, and dumped the cus­tom Lifestream – based theme which I used to have in favor of a nor­mal blog, and a theme I down­loaded. It just wasn’t worth …

Little Differences: London

This is me, try­ing to record a few off­hand obser­va­tions, and ridicu­lously try to link them to larger social trends and stereo­types, aside from the stuff every­body already knows, e.g. the habit of dri­ving on the wrong side of the road. Climate Change Air con­di­tion­ing sim­ply isn’t used as much here in London; the indoors are …

Thoughts on Privacy

This post is pretty heavy on the pon­tif­i­cat­ing, but I’ll tie it back into GNOME at the end, I swear. I’ve been think­ing quite a bit about pri­vacy lately. Most of the shiny things here on the inter­net are some type of ser­vice where you aban­don some degree of pri­vacy to an inter­me­di­ary in return for …

Every Pop Song On the Radio

I dis­cov­ered a bit from Clay Shirky, talk­ing about how tele­vi­sion was the way post-griminess indus­trial soci­ety chose to cope with free time. Included was the bit that enough time is wasted watch­ing tele­vi­sion to pro­duce all of Wikipedia 2000 times over.