Barley

Not funny because it's rude — one for Anthony, yeah? Yeah?

Posted at 2005-03-19 15:06:48 by Richard • Link to Barley

We live in the future

Ben Brown has written up a kind of interaction that we take for granted these days, and shown it for the remarkable event it really was.

Joshua and I posted a virtual message on a message board that did not exist physically, but was tied to a specific location. He responded, and was able to take advantage of his slightly better vantage point to record a notable experience. He transmitted a digital photo, first over a wire, then over the airwaves to me, where I transferred it over airwaves then wires to a server somewhere in New York. While the notable event was still occuring, two strangers collaborated to share the event with the world, and record it for posterity. It all took about three minutes.

We live in the future.

The whole post is pretty interesting, have a read. Think how much of this stuff we technorati do all of the time, with our smartphones, Bluetooth, and our SSH connections, our blogs, Firewire cables, and a little bit of code. Bloody amazing if you ask me!

Posted at 2005-03-19 14:43:24 by Richard • Link to We live in the fut…

Goddamn

I was just browsing around Amazon and spotted a recommendation on the left bar — a beach viewed from a diagonal, with the text written in the sand. I'd seen it before, on some site related to the bands I've been looking at recently — Metric, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Abraham, The Softies, or something like that. And then my finger hit ‘W’, and it was gone. No amount of browsing will bring it back, and I can't find the damn thing.

I also don't know how to access OmniWeb's disk cache, so that's it — gone from my brain.

Hopefully I'll read this and remember….

Posted at 2005-03-19 14:37:22 by Richard • Link to Goddamn