Memories

“You see that Xena Warrior Princess, she’s your favorite historical figure” …and I thought I was bad at history. Or maybe we should be asking ourselves more about what history is? Why do we believe the history we were taught in school? Is there anything happening here apart from a speeding up of the story […]

Killing time in an airport bar…

(this entry written in a steakhouse at Helsinki airport…yeah, I know, even with redundancy on my mobile internet and I couldn’t get the laptop to dialup…the rest of the trip later, once I’m caught up with the rest of everything) Helsinki airport, where I rather foolishly arrived early expecting there to be some kind of […]

Oh, and while I’m at it, if there are any security and/or embedded coders out there, could you drop me a mail – I’ve got some project ideas I’d like to kick around.

Eeeps, 9 hours ’til I leave for Helsinki and I’ve not started packing yet. Why am I so disorganised?

Teen rage… “The mother had – clearly ill-advisedly – decided to confiscate her daughter’s mobile phone. She ended up barricaded in her bedroom for her trouble, with the frenzied adolescent hacking at the door a la Jack Nicholson. Mercifully, the authorities intervened at that point.” …time to bring back the metal chassis of the old […]

I suppose I should ask this in … Am I going to be able to get to Helsinki for a meeting and back to Tokyo for Dark Castle on Saturday? That would work out an average of around 150mph for the duration of the trip. Maybe it’d be better to work out how to use […]

In the shadow of the communication revolution

stompyboots and timsmith are in Japan at the moment, so I have been showing them a few of the sights over here. They seemed quite impressed with the Christon Cafe on Friday night, and yesterday was a lot of walking around Odaiba…I hope they enjoyed that too, but they were looking a little tired by […]

Electronic monk “he suggests, a backpack could be used in the middle of a protest or emergency to enable everyone in the area to immediately communicate with one another. We can see several situations where a moveable, location-specific network could be very useful” At last the potential of mobile adhoc networking is becoming a feasibility… […]

You have to ask yourself What would Motley Crue do?