Okay, so that last entry was kind of short and rushed — it’s because I didn’t want to write about “consciousness as a non-physical, non-temporal phenomena” (although I might manage to write something a little more coherent at a later date). Rather, I wanted to write about something that requires …

I’ve been wondering about reality and consciousness. What if our consciousness exists outside of spacetime, “mapping” onto our living, physical brains to allow us to control our bodies and receive physical input? This isn’t too far out an idea — why else do you forget your dreams when you move in …

Every now and then I stumble across something — or something stumbles across me — that makes me believe that life is more than just a sequence of arbitrary occurences imposed upon me from the outside. Indeed, it seems quite the opposite — that certain things are happening for the very specific …

The replacement RAM for my new workstation “curiousity” finally arrived yesterday, stuffed through the letterbox by the friendly neighbourhood courier to fall upon worn rental-property pile like the softest rain on virgin soils. I don’t normally get things delivered to my home address, since I’m …

Not much here: Today I wrote a udev rule which creates a /dev/nokia770 device when the web tablet is plugged in. On Ubuntu Edgy, create a file named 50-nokia770.rule in /etc/udev/rules.d with the following content: BUS=="usb",SYSFS{product}=="Nokia 770",KERNEL=="sd?1",NAME="nokia770"

A collection of loosely coupled network devices running a variety of collaborative and cooperative services to provide an information grid/mesh within a home environment. So I’m networking my apartment, drenching it in EM radiation from access-points and wifi devices: workstations, laptops, portable …