The concept of emergence might be more useful than that of coincidence in explaining the world. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Virgin Active
I lock up my gym gear. The locker I use for my bag is empty except for some half-used men’s perfume which I decide would be nice to have. I go into the gym. I return to find the padlock gone and the bag, so fearing theft approach the front desk. No, she replied, it [...]
Suburban Mayhem
Noticed coming out of the film ‘Suburban Mayhem’ a anti-speeding poster which reminded me of something I’d seen before..Erwin Blumenfeld’s photomontage of Hitler and a skull: “One version with a jagged hole for a nose, one blank eye socket and a gaping line of teeth was exhibited in Paris in 1937 but had to [...]
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
In the film ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Mel Gibson’s character has many copies of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I saw last week. The partner of Ricky Gervais reported the comic had recently finished reading the book, I read this week. But what I didn’t know was that The Catcher in the Rye, was a novel inspired in part by Burns’ poem “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye,” after attending Burns Night last night..
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
In the film ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Mel Gibson’s character has many copies of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I saw last week. The partner of Ricky Gervais reported the comic had recently finished reading the book, I read this week. But what I didn’t know was that The Catcher in the Rye, was a novel inspired in part by Burns’ poem “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye,” after attending Burns Night last night..
Polish vodka
At my meditation class today Spanish TV journo Enrico Perez said he’d covered the looting of the MSC Napoli down in Devon. And that many of the good folk helping themselves were Polish. Funny, ’cause when I was at the IBM talk on Thursday night the speaker flashed up a slide with a quote from [...]
The Promise, the Limits and the Beauty of Software, lecture by Grady Booch, IBM
A few random thoughts following this interesting talk. Firstly, noticed one of the few things he noticed was users producing their own aps, which I was suprised at. Secondly, his interest in not just software but software systems, and how these systems interacted and their emergent properties. So I though wow, there’s a whole world [...]
SMEs in the NHS
Last I heard from Margaret Hodge was in a letter about arson on our estate in Barking. Now I see she’s championing SMEs in the UK health market.
My life of travel website
Check out the cool looking My Life of Travel website:
Keep a travel journal (travel blog) of past, present and future trips
Watch your travel maps expand as you visit more cities
Create photo albums and upload as many photos as you like
Leave travel journal entries public or share only with friends
Find interesting travel [...]
James Brown now dead
OK, so I just found out James Brown died on Xmas day. Day-way to go James. Not surprisingly this news did not make it to the Black Forest where I was staying. New’s today is that there moving his body to a final resting place. Apparently he recently appeared in London at the BBC Electric [...]