The Bus Book - 5th to 17th May - Wikinomics
Wikinomics is something of a phenomena - it has a website as well as being a book. The book is about the concept of 'peer production' - think of the way in which Open Source sofwtare and Wikipedia is…
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1 - some notes for the nervous
There's a few basic rules that we can all follow and learn from in life. You know the stuff: Never play cards with a man called Mississipi Slim Always walk a mile in the other mans shoes - you have hi…
Reflections on "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
I read this short story again recently; it's by Ursula Le Guin and is one of the most haunting short stories that I've ever read. The only short story that sticks with me more than this one is Parke …
The Bus Book - 14th to 28th April - Jung!
For many years I have had a great interest in the work of CG Jung. This originated in my 20s, when I became inteersted in comparative mythology, and read the book 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'by J…
Salad Bowl or Melting Pot?
The other day I was reading an old favourite of mine 'The Networking Book', by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps http://www.netage.com/pub/books/NetBook/netbook.html In one chapter an interesting obs…
Online Culture and the Law of Two Feet
Well, after 4 years I recently left an Internet Forum which I'd grown very attached to. The reason I left was pretty straightforward to me, and in my 'Bye Bye' post I simply commented that I was leav…
The Bus Book - w/c 7th April - The Templars, Piers Paul Reid
The things I knew about the Knights Templars - OK, the things that I'd picked up along the way and thought they were true to varying degrees - were as follows: They wore white smocks with a red cross …
PHP Session Variables and AJAX
This one is a beauty... I have recently been writing a web application that combined AJAX and PHP Session Variables. I soon encountered a problem where it appeared that the session variables were no…
Life is what happens...
when you're making other plans, according to John Lennon! And it certainly seems to be the case that blogging is not what happens when you're assailed by the requirements of life and the 'day job'! Wh…
The Bus Book - w/c 31st March - Libra
Don DeLillo's Libra takes on the great rift in the American psyche; that which opened up on 22nd November 1963 when Kennedy was assasinated. Whatever the nature of the man, one thing became true form…