One of the first presentations on Wednesday at ETech 09. Luebkeman, from Arup, talking about “Urban Futures”. It was an interesting presentation, and he was a great talker but… I still don’t know what the point of the presentation was. It all felt like an introduction to some...

Occasional West Country allnighter Roots Of Rhythm returns once more this month. This time the location is Bristol and the date is Saturday March 21st. Prepare to have your ears overwhelmed with pleasure, courtesy of the tunes played by a huge array of quality DJs from across Europe. The...

Self-test for the American "leftist": "Are you tired of living in this capitalist hell?," asks Alex Tokarev. If so, click here....

This great song just keeps rolling around in my soul, " 'What have you done to deserve all of this? Just curse God and die.' What advice for a man who had trusted God All of his life. But then Job speaks, surrounded by his broken down domain, 'In the midst of it all, I'll stand and not fall, I'll bl...

Yesterday was way too easy. It's what Cap calls a "Free Money Day" in the markets, where you have some obvious good news and everything goes straight up all day, rewarding all participants with a shower of cash. It was certainly just what we needed after a relentlessly bad month. We flipped more bul...

Spring is here, lots of evidence. But one is just a feeling in the air. It is the cold trying to linger, while warmth is creeping in. It is a pushing and pulling of forces. Over the weekend, warmth won. However, yesterday morning, cold won. (most notably, because the heat in the house was not t...

I have been fortunate to visit and photograph a few of the iconic locations around Page, Arizona: The Wave, Antelope Canyon, Buckskin Gulch, Horseshoe Bend and Monument Valley. Recently, I shared some correspondance about these places with UK photographer David Sharp, whom I originally met at Brooks...

More notes from the ETech 09 conference, this a talk by Alex Steffen of World Changing: One of the biggest choices we can make is how many children we have. Given the choice many women have fewer kids than they would otherwise. We could see peak population in our lifetime. Most of the people who wil...

The second and final event on the opening night of ETech 09 was a series of Ignite talks: very quick and brief talks. Jane McGonigal Mentioned the Superstruct game. Shows a video from 2019 as if from a company called Signtific Lab. What if custom satellites were as easy to launch as personal website...

Recently I asked you 3 simple questions about Slacker Manager. As promised, here are the unedited results, with a few conclusions I drew at the end of the survey. 1. Do you ever talk about Slacker Manager? 13 readers don’t talk about Slacker Manager, 15 readers don’t ever talk about Slac...