Tom Morris: 2005-08

Lazy lazy lazy. Just recovering from last night. 2005-08-19T10:56:43Z

In liberty, we can live. Today, we cannot. I'm feeling a lot stronger about politics at the moment. Much, much stronger. The government is omnipresent and hugely wasteful. We need to cut it down to size. 2005-08-13T14:59:40Z

Yay. Got searched yesterday in London. And I'm going to complain about it today. 2005-08-13T09:03:22Z

I'm doing something pretty cool with my notebooks. I have a series of Chronological Notebooks which basically represents a huge offline blog. I'm also building a Supplemental Index. The Supplemental Index is an interesting thing - I'm building it on a computer. It's a bit difficult to build it offline, since it changes. The really cool thing about the Supplemental Index is that also includes stuff that's not in the Notebooks. Basically, the Supplemental Index includes not just everything I've written but also lots and lots of stuff I've read. It's slow work compiling the Supplemental Index, but it's pretty easy to do. 2005-08-10T08:11:06Z

I'm back. I've got loads of stuff to do - creative things too. Lots of design work. I also need a microphone. Cheap, good quality and desktop based. My headset is broken - still useable, but annoying. 2005-08-07T20:37:04Z

My Windows reinstall went reasonably well. Everything seems to be working apart from the .NET framework, which I'm having to download again. My graphics card driver doesn't work without the .NET framework, which means that my 9600XT is currently pumping out 4-bit graphics at 800x600 on my beautiful 21" monitor. Finally, my Mac has better graphics than my PC. 2005-08-06T12:59:50Z

Podcasting got a mention on the Now Show. But it's not just "stuff taped off the radio". You'd think that, with Wikipedia just one click away, people, even comedians, on the MSM, could get these things right. Still, at least it's not "streaming radio", which is what a few morons keep saying. 2005-08-06T09:52:32Z

Off to LAN in the morning. Got to get all my games installed before I go. Damn, I'm going to be up all night. 2005-08-05T21:45:15Z

Summer is here properly. I've been jazzing out and drinking pineapple juice. I'm going to have to order a crate of pineapple juice. I'm thinking pineapple cocktails would be nice. Note to self: look up pineapple and vodka mixtures. 2005-08-05T20:51:51Z

Podcasting solution: Adam Curry has been trying to find a solution for podcasting's bandwidth use. How about this? Have a whole bunch of RSS feeds. Every time someone looks for your RSS feed, they get a different feed - so, for instance adamcurry01.xml, adamcurry02.xml, adamcurry03.xml etc. There would be a smalll time difference between each file. So, for instance, if 01.xml publishes at 1pm, then 02.xml publishes at 1.30pm. The time variation could be varied by the bandwidth used. That way, the difference between n.xml and n+1.xml is dependent on how much bandwidth is used. Perhaps each n.xml would be mapped to a different server if you wanted to reduce the difference between n.xml and n+1.xml. This way, each podcatcher picks up the file over a longer period. What would be the best thing though? Archive.org could do the most useful thing ever - become a podcatcher. Basically, you publish an XML feed - let's call it private.xml. You then ping archive.org who download the latest podcast from private.xml. They then republish the XML file replacing the enclosures with an archive.org URL. Here would be the cool bit though: if something fails to get in to the Internet Archive (if, for instance, it is libellous or copyright infringing), then the XML feed would be turned back to the original URL, and an email would be fired off to the podcaster. That would solve two problems: keeping archives and providing bandwidth. I know both of those kind of fit with the archive.org mission, and that would be a very cool way to solve the bandwidth problem. 2005-08-05T20:40:35Z

Reinstalling Windows is such good fun. I really want to do it every single day. 2005-08-05T20:06:53Z

Can't find any good MP3 software for Windows. iTunes has a small but annoying little problem that prevents me from using it (don't try and convince me, the problem is unsolveable without Apple fundamentally redesigning iTunes), and Winamp kind of sucks. 2005-08-05T16:20:32Z

Just finished reading Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase. Really interesting memoir, and put in to words a lot of the things I've been mulling over. Herbert Hart is a fantastic character - need to read some of his work. 2005-08-05T11:54:10Z

Got lots to do tommorow. 2005-08-04T19:14:39Z

More about my offline ideas file: I'm hoping to index the ideas file soon by making a small loose-leaf A5 file containing a computer-generated index. I'm going to have the most comprehensive note-taking system in the world. And the fruits of it are going to be seen right here (and, well, here too, and here if here happens to be one of my university essays). Anyway, I've got dogs to walk and pubs to go and lurk in. 2005-08-02T16:55:11Z

Off to London in the morning. And off to a LAN party at the weekend. In the meantime, writing, writing, writing. Got two big new notebooks, so that my offline journal/notes/ideas file can build up. I'm currently about 260 pages in. There are downsides. Security, for one. If it rains, as well, ink can run. Fire doesn't do it much good. Still, unlike laptops, it doesn't run out of batteries. And I can even use it when the electricity is off. 2005-08-01T23:09:07Z

I'm in deep Hermione Granger mode at the moment. No, I haven't been given a place at Hogwarts (as if they'd accept a twenty year old philosophy student). No, I've managed to get hold of all my books for next year's Kierkegaard course: Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Upbuilding Discourses In Various Spirits, Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death, selected Journals, some secondary literature and the volume II material from Concluding Unscientific Postscript. I managed to read Fear and Trembling while on holiday, and I am ready to jump in to the rest of this stuff. 2005-08-01T19:27:51Z

The electricity has been off for most of the day today. Six am till about five pm. Got lots of book readin' done, and even started writing some fairly interesting stuff on paper. 2005-08-01T18:06:57Z

Want to know why I'm a libertarian and not a conservative? Simple. The war on drugs. Smokedot: "Twenty-nine-year-old Scott Bryant had just settled down to watch TV with his 7-year-old son on the night of April 17, 1995, when 13 Wisconsin sheriff¹s deputies burst through his front door looking for marijuana. Bryant, who was unarmed, was shot and killed as his young son helplessly looked on. Police seized less than 3 grams of marijuana in the no-knock raid." Three grams! $35 billion federal tax dollars and shooting this completely harmless guy for three grams of pot. When will you Americans vote these stupid fuckers out? 2005-08-01T00:43:45Z

Hmm. Can't assign categories in OPML Editor (Mac). 2005-08-01T00:37:03Z

Really nice to be back in my own bed after four days in a tent and three hotels. My room is bigger than the tent I was living in. I really enjoyed What The Hack, and, of course, it wouldn't work in a hotel or conference centre or whatever. But it's nice to be out of that tent. 2005-08-01T00:35:17Z

I'm posting from my iBook. And using Synergy, this won't interrupt my workflow at all. 2005-08-01T00:07:25Z

Just got back from What The Hack. Now back at my desk. And Winer's OPML editor has just been released for Macintosh. No more having to boot in to Windows to use OPML Editor. 2005-07-31T23:07:28Z

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