The most recent Long Now Seminar in San Francisco sounds like it was brilliant. Frans Lanting set out to take photographs of places where the conditions resemble those from key moments in the distant past of the evolution of planet Earth. From Stewart’s email summary: On a live volcano in Hawaii he found the naked planet of 4.3 billion years ago— molten rock flowing, zero [...]
Instruction manuals – pah!
So I’ve got a new phone with which I am very pleased. It’s a Nokia 6300 and looks and feels lovely. Nice stainless steel covers, bright screen, easy to use menu system. No complaints at all so far. The interesting thing for me has been how I’ve been getting it to work better than any phone I’ve had before by connecting it to my mac [...]
The opening bid
For the slightly geeky machinery of government people out there, this is really interesting. David Wilcox and friends have decided to do an open source bid for a tender announced by the Office of the Third Sector for an Innovation Exchange. I’ve long thought that government tendering processes were one of the big barriers to change in the public sector. My feeling was that change [...]