2006.04.11
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I'm calibrating my MacBook Pro battery. In about twenty minutes I have to turn my computer off for five hours. I can use my PC, and my iPod, but this is a ludicrous Appleism. Then once this battery is calibrated, I've got to see if I can get the buggy battery to calibrate on the same principles. My replacement battery does seem to be working - no random cut outs. No more blogging today though. See y'all tommorow. 2006-04-11T18:45:03Z
How many warnings do we need against web filtering? Well, here's another. If it's filtered, it's barely the Internet anymore. It's a crappy walled garden like AOL. And we should oppose it. And help the people behind those crappy walls get access to our sites. 2006-04-11T18:43:04Z
Guy Kawasaki has a post of observations for his first 100 days blogging. I've found that I get no bozos. It's a real advantage in not having comments. 2006-04-11T18:38:59Z
The Royal Society have audio and video podcasts and are streaming tonight's creationism event (kicks off at 6:30 London time). This is good because I'm lazy and broke and don't want to go in to the city. 2006-04-11T10:58:22Z
Congratulations, Lance James, you are the winner of the stupid creationist letter award for April. Please collect your prize: a replica of the Archaeopteryx fossil. 2006-04-11T10:48:30Z
The ATL want to abolish the National Curriculum. Hooray! But they want to replace it with something equally silly. Boo! 2006-04-11T10:15:26Z
I wonder why this research on Near-Death Experiences doesn't surprise me. Yeah, we do this thing called dream. It's not supernatural, nor is it a portal to another dimension, you fruitcakes. 2006-04-11T10:13:43Z
Lisa points to this guy who thinks that email is the new RSS. RSS takes me about five seconds to subscribe to. I click Subscribe, wait a moment, confirm, wait a moment, click 'OK' to acknowledge that I've been subscribed. To subscribe to an email newsletter, I've got to type in my email address (and be sure I trust the person/organisation), then load up Gmail, click on the email, find the URL within the email (and possibly reformat it so that it works), load it up, wait for another email, then wait for an actual email from the list, then set up a filter to put it in to a different Label, then remember to go and read it. Such usability benefits! "Less cumbersome"? What a joke. 2006-04-11T10:07:29Z
Lee is reporting that Adidas have hired porn star Jemma Jameson to do a 'viral' video podcast which explores her "splayed out, oiled-up breasts". While most people are using podcasts for slightly more cereberal experiences, treating their customers as intelligent subjects, it's good to see that Adidas aren't going down that route... 
2006-04-11T07:00:02Z
Niall Kennedy has been picked up by Microsoft to work on clever RSS and Atom stuff. He celebrates by linking to the Steve Ballmer monkey video. 2006-04-11T06:58:00Z
Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
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.
I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.
