in progress

I've been having a think lately about what I do. Not just what is the nature of the work that I perform, but what do I bring to that work which is special in some fashion. This is a rather annoying form of navel gazing, but if one …

This was originally posted on my tumblr back in late 2009, I've moved it here because it remains relevant. I've made minor corrections and adjustments.

In a thread on the TiddlyWeb Google group, I stated:

My opinion is that stuff, i.e. information, should be addressable and reusable. That's my …

Imported from an old blog.

Morning rambling. Take with drugs. Your milage may vary.

Feedback, in some fundamental way, is at the core of a successfully collaborating system. This was the fundamental insight of Wiener and his cybernetics. Whatever else we may think about what it has to say about …

Imported from an old blog.

I've been reading a biography of Norbert Wiener. The title is the ominous Dark Hero of the Information Age. I'm not that far in but it's been quite interesting thus far, despite the sometimes stilted writing.

When he was ten (c. 1904) he wrote his …