Governments like control. All centralized media has been censored by Government in some form. James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in both UK and US until the 1930’s. Book burning is an old practice. Most recently made popular by Hitler in 1933. Radio, TV, movies, and games are all censored through national ratings panels. Beyond that, [...]
There’s no one right or wrong way to use twitter. Here’s a few companies over in San Francisco who not only have a Twitter account, but use it well for both their customers, and themselves.
Local shop, health focused, Bi-rite, on Twitter
SF SPCA Business Cards, asking people to follow them
Others doing it [...]
There’s a lot of costly backup applications for OSX, which are nothing more than flashy front-ends for the inbuilt OSX command, rsync. After having a few friend’s HDDs fail recently, it was time to finish my backup solution for a free automated remote backup.
To do this, I coupled rsync, a shell script, idisk, and cron. [...]
The past few months I’ve been working in a culture that had no play, no acceptance of failure, and a philosophy of fear. Obviously every employee’s perspective and situation are going to be difference, but this is how I see it.
In other parts of my life, I’ve been coding/mashing data up, building services, drawing, [...]