September 2009
3 posts
Welcome to the Cyborg Institute →
Second Skin →
Review article: Researching the Internet →
August 2009
1 post
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July 2009
1 post
May 2009
8 posts
EmacsWiki: WThree MHints And Tips →
CTAN: directory:... →
chicago manual of style package recomended by @madalu for bibtex
1jr [BarCamp Portland 2009] →
amber case’s notes for a talk from barcamp portland 2009
The hacking business model - Askmonty.org →
ScribTeX →
Interview with Vicky Sinclair (Bricolabs) by... →
Name: Vicky Sinclair
Network: Bricolabs
Interview by: Gabriella Coleman
Date: 3 - 7 March, 2009
Location: Winter Camp 09, Amsterdam
URL: networkcultures.org/wintercamp Vicky Sinclair, an activist and…
April 2009
14 posts
mobile emacs →
I have a confession. I last week (briefly) considered getting a Nokia
N810 so that I could sync and use org-mode
when I was away from my computer/laptop. The N800/810 is a small
tablet that runs a…
Sex Writing →
I’ve had “write post about writing/read sexuality” on my todo list for
too long and I wanted to make the general note before it got too
stale. In a lot of way’s this is in response to
Nora’s …
Against Database Powered Websites →
For the last, call it 8 years, having a website, dynamically generated
with most of the content pulled on (nearly) every reload from a
database. MySQL or PostgreSQL, or some such. It’s a great…
Microblogging Aggregation →
When Jaiku gave microbloggers (ie. users of services like
identi.ca and twitter,
etc.) the ability to aggregate their content onto Jaiku from blogs,
flickr, delicious, and of course twitter as…
Fact File Code →
In my post about my fact
file
I said that I was going to “try things out and see how it goes” before
I posted code to see how things work in the system. Well, I think
things are pretty stable (I…
Cooking Adventures →
I commented to someone, probably
Caroline, that I found cooking to be a
lot like writing fiction. You start out with a vague I dea of what
you’re trying to do, some really firm building blocks…
Cold Snap, Links, Writing →
There’s been something of a midwestern cold snap the past few days,
which is incredibly wierd, and I omitted my walk today mostly out of
protest, not that the weather responds to such acts, but then…
Cooking Adventures →
I commented to someone, probably
Caroline, that I found cooking to be a
lot like writing fiction. You start out with a vague I dea of what
you’re trying to do, some really firm building blocks…
a jekylled weekend →
So I was hoping to write you this morning from a brand new blogging
system powered by jekyll that I did
a little bit of tweeking
on. Unfortunatly, all the pieces
aren’t all in place, yet. So…
Evening News →
My grandmother watches the evening news, which isn’t particularly
noteworthy except that it’s not something that I do unless I’m near
someone who does. I tend to get my news via the radio, and…
Wednesday Update →
I’ve been writing a great deal in the past few days: blog posts, the
seed content for a wiki, fiction at a somewhat impressive pace (for
me). While (at press time) there are still lots of things on…
Curation and Content Overload →
There’s a lot of content on the Internet. This as pretty much always
been the case, but it’s especially true these days. There’s so much
content that it’s difficult to comprehend the amount of…
Things to Learn in Emacs →
For my good (and yours), here’s a list of things that I think I should
know how to do in emacs, but somehow don’t: Use the version control package so that I’m not constantly popping
between bash…
Contact, Cyberculture, and Samuel Delany →
I talk to people from time to time about working in cyberspace and
successful new media participation. If I were a hipster, I might even
say, “I do SEO,” but I’m not, and I don’t, really. The truth…
March 2009
32 posts
Contact, Cyberculture, and Samuel Delany →
I talk to people from time to time about working in cyberspace and
successful new media participation. If I were a hipster, I might even
say, “I do SEO,” but I’m not, and I don’t, really. The truth…
knitting update →
Two pieces of knitting news: I’ve started knitting seriously on the cabled sweater I’m making. I
(for various reasons) have one ball of yarn (for it) to last me the
next month, which will–I…
Links and Old Habits →
So I’ve noticed that my impulse on these shorter blog posts (codas)
that I tend to just do my normal essay thing only shorter, which is
more of an old habit than it is something productive…
After the Siege →
I listened to the podcast of “After The Siege,” a novella by Cory
Doctorow, the other week (I’ve been driving cross country and walking
a lot, I’m going through a lot of audio.) It was really cool…
getting emacs daemon to work right →
In the latest/forthcoming version of GNU
Emacs there exists a daemon
mode. The intent is to make it easier to run in one instance of emacs,
and rather than starting new instances, you can run…
In Favor of Group Blogs and Efforts →
I wrote in “The Advertising
Bubble” that
one of the ways to more effectively monetize content and “do better on
the Internet,” was to combine efforts with other content
producers. The key thought…
Critical Futures Futures and Curation Futures →
I posted a new story on Critical
Futures today. It’s another one from
the Knowing Mars novella that I wrote a year ago and that I had been
posting previously. After a much too long break from…
Handling Data →
Data, information, in the digital context is really important. Perhaps
the most important thing. It’s a shame then, I think, that we’re, on
the whole, so bad at managing data and organizing…
Critical Futures Futures and Curation Futures →
I posted a new story on Critical
Futures today. It’s another one from
the Knowing Mars novella that I wrote a year ago and that I had been
posting previously. After a much too long break from…
the debate over eBooks →
I read something a few weeks ago (the problem with being slow to
process things from blogs that post regularly), about digital ebook
readers and the future of digital
books. I guess my thoughts…
The Hard (GNU/Linux) Truth →
Backstory: Chris is something of an
Operating system junkie, and likes to play around with things. I think
he’s weird, but whatever. Also, he bought a netbook several months
ago, and after much…
meta writing →
At the risk of sounding vague (or overly polite) I had the chance to
read/hear a few writers describe the mechanics of their work
recently. To clarify, by writers I mean “fiction writes,” and…
Announcements, geek stuff, guest blogging →
I wrote an article for my friend Melissa
Barton about how to use
computers/technology more successfully and more
effectively, and it went live over the weekend. I’m really happy with it, and…
Week in Preview →
I watched the last episode of Battlestar Galatica, (I’d been behind
several weeks) today, because I was tired of everyone else talking about
it and staying away from reading things on the Internet…
a working “for” loop →
So I was sorting through my org-mode files
and I found a little snippet of code that I had lying around. I’ve had
a problem with shell scripting for a while. I use bash a lot, and
I’ve written a…
teapot problem →
So while I’m a bit (ha!) of a tea junkie, I must confess that my tea
brewing/tea pot equipment is pretty minimal. I have (had) a couple of
tea pots that were obtained at church rummage sales, and I…
Writers that Changed My World →
I saw a meme, I from
lesboprof,
that listed 25 authors that were influential to her. It was fun for me
to read, because there was some overlap with what my list would be and
because she’s…
Writers that Changed My World →
I saw a meme, I from
lesboprof,
that listed 25 authors that were influential to her. It was fun for me
to read, because there was some overlap with what my list would be and
because she’s…
exercise →
No secret, I’ve been stressed. Readers of the blog who are friends
with my parents (Hi Angie!) have even told them “wow, [tycho] looks
stressed.” One of the things I’ve been doing for a few weeks…
lisp-ing forward →
“blah blah tycho says he’s not a programmer, blah blah.” I say stuff
like this (more or less) quite a bit, right? But I know a lot about
how computers work, a lot about how programs are constructed…
emacs blogging? me too? forward directions… →
One of the things that I find a lot when I’m seraching the internet for
emacs things (or, in the case of my google
alert, when emacs stuff on the web finds
me.) Are people writing blog posts that…
Fact File and Orbital Mechanics →
I mentioned the other day that I was looking to build a fact
file, but that I
wanted to follow up on this in a bit more length. As you know and/or
have probably guessed, I’m a writer, and I…