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2nd November 2011
Hype, hearsay and hyperbolæ – shale gas and the UK energy economy
I take the first random bus and here I am, within one of the areas that might be soon licensed for unconventional gas production. Is there no sanctuary for the weary researcher? This has been my work for the last few months, and even when I try to get away from it, it won't let me go!23rd May 2011
"Promulgating the Web's calorie controlled diet"
Whilst catching up on a long-overdue chore as I recover from the flu, I muse on the role of "design" within the driving energy and resource trends of information systems, and how we measure such ethereal trends in order to define a process for change.16th April 2011
"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one"
Sitting in a dusky evening, a conjugating map of ideas linking like the linear lattice of the hedgerowed landscape, I mull over the milestone we have reached; and why the mainstream media, political and campaign groups seem to have missed it.22nd-25th March 2011
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
I met George Monbiot many years ago, during the various roads and land campaigns of the early 1990s – not long after the security guards at the Batheaston/Swainswick bypass used "minimum reasonable force" to bust his foot, after which he limped from event-to-event on a crutch. As far as nuclear power goes, George has been sitting on the fence for a while now; this week he fell off, on the pro-nuclear side.
23rd December 2010
When You're Windows are Broken don't be Surprised if you Feel the Cold Draught of Distress
Analysing my annual chore – performing maintenance, upgrading and reinstalling my "critical information infrastructure" – I find that this process reveals how the control and intellectual property patterns of the wider economy impose themselves upon our creative use of information technology; or not, if you decide to opt-out of the exploitative clutches of proprietary control and live in the "free" world.
This isn't a blog... blogging isn't something I aspire to. Escaping
the confines of being a consultant, researcher and author by teaching the
skills of low impact living and working beyond problems of peak energy by
taking people camping (click on picture),
yes;
sitting at a computer and writing the passage of my existence for others to share,
no. For that reason this is something wholly less immediate,
static,
and not driven by power-hungry database servers generating bloated datastreams.
My apologies to those wanting the everyday 'blog-o-sphere'-type brief, digested or vacuous information constructs within the content of these pages; I don't tweet, I don't do sound bites, and I don't insult my own or my reader's intelligence by spouting views in isolation from the ideas that define them. My medium is the word, the argument and the reference, and in these pages I'm going to push that medium as far as I can. If that's "not you", or you strongly object to reading lengthy passages of text, please click here.
There are a lot of good blogs around, but all to often blogs are a link followed by a short commentary on someone else's point of view – an endless recycling of present/other people's ideas, or at worse an iterative recycling, without any effort of extensibility to new themes or ways of thinking.
Think of this as a punctuated diary; a newsletter of thoughts, observations and ideas on the shape of the world around my own ethereal existence. A prose-aic collection of words reflecting the hyper-Kafkaesque-reality of politics, economics, the media and the environment movement; from an "age of uniformity... greetings!"
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