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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Datalog As Exocortex Technology

The problem with Twitter and other microblogging tools is that they are too public. There’s no provision for logging private data at the moment.
Let’s say you have a private datalog that only you can access from the web or your mobile device. You use it to log private data, like when you get in bed, [...]

The Ivory Tower And The Bazaar

Our country is theoretically a democracy. We don’t have Civics classes like they do in America, so most of our lessons in democracy come to us subconsciously.
School forms a large part of this subconscious education. I only started realizing how bad it was when I started reading books like The Underground History Of American Education [...]

UNISA Has A Retarded New Email Policy

This morning, I received a friendly mail from UNISA.
Dear MR XXX XXX
We’d like to make it easier for you to communicate with us, so from 2009, Unisa will be offering all registered students a unique email address, free of charge, with 10 gigabytes worth of space. Here’s how it works.
When you register as a student [...]

Secret Places And Desserts

For a while now I’ve been looking for the song in the Purity baby food advert that had the kid taping his stationary to a desk, watching TV upside down, and lying on the floor of an elevator while it goes up.
They lyrics go something like this:
He plays in secret places
Eyes wise and wide
Charmed little [...]