Just another personal update I’m afraid. Been buried in issues around work relocation to the USA for several weeks, but now it’s looking set. UK house let. Boys’ UK university accomodation sorted. Visas obtained for Sylvia and I. Flights booked. US apartment booked. Start date confirmed. We’re off next week. I should be offline between [...]
Entries from April 2006
Nearly there
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April 28, 2006 at 10:12am
by Ian
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Religion – The frightening kind.
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April 9, 2006 at 3:15pm
by Ian
Struck by this quote about Waziristan (Pakistan, north of Balochistan), the piece includes some scarier Taleban material too. “In North Waziristan, it is religion that overrides all tribal bondages and customs, making it the most conservative region.” The story in neighbouring Balochistan is mainly tribal / local disputes over natural (gas) resources. I recall all [...]
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Big brother watching our RFID’s
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April 9, 2006 at 2:55pm
by Ian
Various grades of paranoia surrounding widespread RFID tagging of goods, being associated with movements of ourselves as consumers. I’ve never quite got the paranoia generated by identification of the innocent (identity cards n’all that). Where I come from a discarded tin can already is a crime scene – a small one naturally. Anyway, technology is [...]
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Unconsoled
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April 9, 2006 at 1:41pm
by Ian
Reading “The Unconsoled” by Kazuo Isihiguro, prompted by Alice’s comments about Ian McEwan on the Dawkins “Selfish Gene 30 Years On” thread. Strange book as the TLS review commented. Some weird situations. First person narrator following two third parties moving out of the first person view, and continuing the first person narrative. Shouting to be [...]
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Recursion is good – It’s official
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April 6, 2006 at 3:12pm
by Ian
Just reading the latest Edge magazine, and see a review by Stewart Brand of Kevin Kelly’s – “Speculations on the Future of Science”. I’ve mentioned many times the vaue of recursion, often when people get hung up on cyclical logic, as if it is automatically a dead end, begging some question or other. Most recently [...]
