I phoned Orange this morning to try and sort out yesterday's problems. It took about 20 minutes to resolve - but they refunded the money that was removed from my credit and gave my today's access for free as a courtesy. That's not bad. 
2006.09.26
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Amazon UK has me pegged - my homepage is showing me: Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, Roland Barthes' The Semiotic Challenge and the DVD of Revenge of the Nerds I & II. 2006-09-26T21:28:23Z
Oh, wow. The "mobi" TLD is going live today. The excitement is just suffocating me. About the only thing that TechCrunch UK can say is that it's increasing a lot of buzz. The mobile Internet has enough buzz - it hasn't quite got the economics right. 2006-09-26T18:11:03Z
An article that's been hanging on my coat-tails waiting to be posted - SXSW are having a panel about 'tag skepticism'. I'm a tag skeptic - I use tags on some services - del.icio.us for instance - but I think that their use is limited. A lot of people don't grok tags - and the complete lack of tagging standards is annoying. I prefer an extensible ontology - that has outlining and multiple terms etc. Quite how you make it practical to do so is something I'm not sure about, but we can do better than tagging. 2006-09-26T18:01:23Z
Good to see that the commentariat aren't immune to a bit of gender stereotyping. Fuck - it's the afternoon now, and I've yet to finish the bile bingo. 2006-09-26T11:26:27Z
Would you go back to 1973? That is the question. The answer: absolutely not. No chance at all. I'd visit 1973 like I'd visit anywhere north of Cambridge - as a curiosity, not a practical reality. I couldn't live without the Internet - and I would go mad living in Britain in the seventies - I get only about 95% electric uptime - I couldn't imagine living with electricity available only three days a week. Think about it: 1973 or 2006? I'd choose 2006 any day. 2006-09-26T11:16:36Z
Harriet Harman gets political bullshit of the day award: "There will be change. But it will not be change for change's sake. It will be change because of the changed circumstances of today." (Via Stephen Pollard) 2006-09-26T11:06:51Z
Jesus and Mo don't get evolution. 
2006-09-26T10:46:57Z
Erik J. Barzeski has some iTunes AppleScripts that he uses. I could do with some AppleScripts that remove a few of iTunes' annoyances. If you want AppleScripts for iTunes, this site has 'em. 2006-09-26T10:50:39Z
Koz: the reason that Steve Jobs doesn't blog is simple. He's an übermensch - we, the customers, are mere peons. Does the King care what the Serf thinks? 2006-09-26T10:41:12Z
The Guardian's Money section are reporting that Britain's pension deficit is increasing with the increase of life expectancy figures. Oh, hooray! A public-sector pensions deficit of £1 trillion is just what this country needs. I'm so glad that my parent's generation and their parent's are buying yachts - while those stupid enough to remain in this country will pay the price for it. 2006-09-26T10:37:00Z
Orange: almost back in good books 2006-09-26T11:07:57Z
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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
Currently in:
East Sussex, England
Usually in:
East Sussex,
United Kingdom
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.
