Tom Morris



2005.08.05

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. 2005-08-05T21:45:15ZUntitled entry permalink

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. 2005-08-05T20:51:51ZUntitled entry permalink

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. 2005-08-05T20:40:35ZUntitled entry permalink

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

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. 2005-08-05T16:20:32ZUntitled entry permalink

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. 2005-08-05T11:54:10ZUntitled entry permalink

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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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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