Tom Morris



2005.07.30

Anybody in the UK with slow connections - I've got a DVD burner and am perfectly happy to burn and send DVD-R's of the WTH/HAL conference video at little or no cost. I may also get involved in setting up a big torrent of all the stuff. 2005-07-30T16:16:26ZUntitled entry permalink

I'm just downloading a tens of gigs of data off the network - all the video files of the conference so far. Since I'm going home in the morning, this is a good investment. There will be more files to get, but I might as well fill my hard drive up with lots of it here, so that I don't have to download as much when I get home (since I get 600k a second here and a measly 40k a second at home, this is a significant time saving). Later I'll also get it to pull lots of the Hackers at Large video. 2005-07-30T16:09:16ZUntitled entry permalink

CNN have put up the AP article on What The Hack. 2005-07-30T15:43:11ZUntitled entry permalink

James Campion: "I’m 42 and impersonating a Christian activist at a NYC porn expo for a thousand word column." 2005-07-30T15:28:14ZUntitled entry permalink

Brian 'Aimee Plumley' Bernbaum on the late Jacques Derrida: "But seriously, I just wanted to say that without you college really would have sucked. I never would have started dropping acid to write my critical theory papers. Come to think of it, I might never have majored in English at all. I probably would have gone for something more practical, like business. But just look at me now. Yeah, thanks a lot asshole." I'm late, but I get the story. Eventually. 2005-07-30T14:58:24ZUntitled entry permalink

Okay, that's odd. Comments appear as posts. They would be a natural thing for 'draft', no? 2005-07-30T14:54:21ZUntitled entry permalink

Dewayne Mikkelson: "What is Shift-Enter supposed to do in the Open today's outline window? I have a new non wedge widget underneath this entry." That would be a comment line. Quite useful for posting stuff that you don't want others to see. I'm not sure whether it works as a kind of 'draft mode'. 2005-07-30T14:43:33ZUntitled entry permalink

Sorry, everybody. Lost my connection for a while. Had a nice lazy day today. 2005-07-30T14:23:56ZUntitled entry permalink

The new header logo is from a picture of one of my three dogs, Leo, standing lookout on the front door of a holiday cottage down in Cornwall. Picture must be from at least a few years back. Probably 1999, but perhaps earlier. 2005-07-30T07:51:06ZUntitled entry permalink

Today, I am going to go to: Censorship technology in China, Literature wants to be free!, CC Netherlands and perhaps some other stuff. Last night's Speedgeek was fun. We need more of them. Some of the talks were fantastic, some were just bizarre. But it certainly gets people talking. That's a good thing. Plus there was a guy who really knew his stuff regarding reputation systems. 2005-07-30T07:23:55ZUntitled entry permalink

This is the best bit of the What The Hack morning. Absolute silence (except my PC whirring away), warm and light, but not sweaty or uncomfortable. We need a British version of WTH. I think it's Danny O'Brien who had his byline for MacUser as something like he imagines a bunch of geeks sitting at iBook's naked in the New Forest. I dunno about naked (We are British, After All!), but lots of nerds make outside very much acceptable, in my opinion. 2005-07-30T06:05:43ZUntitled entry permalink

FeedTagger is almost perfect. Almost! 2005-07-30T06:00:12ZUntitled entry permalink

Come to Podcastcon UK, everybody! 2005-07-30T05:45:44ZUntitled entry permalink

Some feature requests for y'all. 2005-07-30T05:38:23ZUntitled entry permalink

I think I've pulled some bit of my leg. Woke up with it in a funny position a few minutes ago, caused searing pain. 2005-07-30T05:00:31ZUntitled entry permalink

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
AIM: tommorris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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