Tom Morris



2006.11.30

TUAW has an article about Matrox's Dual- and TripleHead2Go, which is apparently now OS X compatible. Looks pretty cool. Just gotta find, er, £182 from somewhere... 2006-11-30T22:48:05ZUntitled entry permalink

Peter Wall and I have been having a discussion about jurisprudence. He thinks that crimes should be judged on a test of whether they cause "disruption to society". I have a big problem with this kind of test, since there are a lot of things which don't directly cause social disruption but are still worth thinking of as crimes. For instance, if there were only one instance of rape, it would not be a significant societal disruption - only one person would be having sex without their consent. But that person can and does have moral and legal rights. It seems to me that the individual is the only thing that should have decisive power when it comes to this kind of discussion. A crime is against an individual, not a group. The inclusion of the group muddies the water with complexity but doesn't provide much in the way of benefit. I've explained my objections to the disruption to society test in his comments. If you've got an opinion about this kind of thing, do go over there and join the discussion. 2006-11-30T21:52:35ZUntitled entry permalink

Jeremy Keith has been at the Semantic Web Think Tank in Brighton. All the magic happens behind closed doors, no? Smile and a wink 2006-11-30T21:40:41ZUntitled entry permalink

Also, Ian has started Flow, a blog about XML pipelines like XProc. 2006-11-30T13:50:27ZUntitled entry permalink

I'm off to visit a university open day (funnily enough, my own university's open day to see whether I can sign away a year of my life and far too much money to do a postgrad degree), so I'm somewhat out of content. Instead, I recommend this Bad Writing Contest. It's both funny and depressing. 2006-11-30T11:51:38ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
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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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