“I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.”
🎵🎶🎼 What do you call the first 10 minutes of a song by Yes?
‘The Introduction’
… as heard on ‘The Rockentours’ with Rick Wakeman
To replace my main computer I used to need to double 2 out of 3 of
- ‘HARD DRIVE’
- ‘RAM’
- ‘CLOCK SPEED’
before I even thought ‘replacement’.
The Mac I want has same RAM and Hard Drive as my current Mac
I guess I need to develop some new gating logic!
Any ideas?
I just got my first “dear john … I’m a dying widow with a massive inheritance” email in YEARS … love to know how it got through the spam filters!
Word
‘Anonymized Data’ Is A Gibberish Term, And Rampant Location Data Sales Is Still A Problem
Exactly - people still spend too much time talking about the data - and not the connections between the data. THAT’s where the power is.
JOHN . PHILPIN . COM is working again ....
My thanks to @manton for resetting my blog that I had broken. I mean really broken.
How - because I was trying to be clever with the footer - and I clearly was not!
Now back up with the Tufte Theme - courtesy of @pimoore running as it should - and the footer kind of organised as I wanted.
Next step - now I understand the very clever nuances that Pete has included in the theme - is to reintroduce some of the emphasis I want.
I am slightly hesitant to rely to much on some of the shortcodes he has added (yet) since those short codes (I presume) will only work on this template?
More diving needed.
I’m not a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk’s style of oral communication - but I don’t think there’s any doubt that he has a knack to see possibilities, learns and acts.
What is an NFT? is a case in point - and it isn’t ‘oral’.
Ever wonder why recommendation engines work so well - yet still fail to find ‘new’ stuff for you?
I mean really new stuff.
Think carefully when you rent from Hertz.
More Than 100 Hertz Customers Are Suing The Company For Falsely Reporting Rented Vehicles As Stolen.
Statues Have Started To Attack People!
Funny - Not Serious
Has my Mac really slowed down since Apple Silicon got released - or am I looking for an excuse?
A Christmas Tree
Definitely a problem @help - see email
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
While wealth distribution follows a power law, the distribution of human skills generally follows a normal distribution that is symmetric about an average value. For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.
Wealth distribution is a recurring topic - this is a neat summary of the inequality.
Houston - we have a problem.
But there is another unseen problem - I am posting this to micro blog - but one of the problems is that my posts don’t reach the timeline - so @manton won’t see it … or will he - after all - I can see this post in my posts - just not on the timeline.
Things moving slow - so test time - posting this at 10:34am local time.
Nothing in the timeline since 10:24am local time.
Drawing Parralels Between The U.S.A. and The Middle East
Maps that Show the Historical Roots of Current US Political Faultlines.
Interesting piece even of itself. But even more so if you read it and draw parallels with other parts of the world.
My interpretation is that the boundaries on this map are ‘cultural boundaries’, reflecting what people feel and how they relate to each other in the U.S.A.
Now imagine if instead of mapping the U.S.A., you mapped The Middle East.
and
Rather than using state lines, you used the borders of countries.
In all honesty, I have seen maps like this in the past. Things like how the Kurdish culture spreads across at least 4 contiguous countries.
One difference between the States and the Middle East is that moving between states in the U.S.A. is a whole lot simpler than between countries in the Middle East.
I think this starts to expose the Middle East ‘fault lines’ in a very clear and explainable way. That is the historical imposition of political boundaries over people might make short-term sense and ‘bring order to the world’ - in the long term, it is ‘cultural power’ that drives the different regions of the world - and will be the final driver/decider.
This ‘culture trumps politics’ model is something that Venkatesh Rao touches on in this article from 2011. It is a long but fascinating read.
If I was ‘world emperor’, google slides would not just be outlawed - but anyone found with a google slide on their computer would be locked up.
It’s even more annoying when it is being used by two people each with their own Mac - and therefore Keynote is already installed!
10 flying cars by 2025youtu.be/mt3bT6GN6…)
It’s a 2020 video - so I suspect that the target date has changed - but still - am I the only person to see a problem?