Mob-blog Commentary
I've got the feeling that mail to blog could be quicker than using the lo-fi editor. Doesn't help that Blogger puts the sign on form at the end of a long page, ditto the blog selection screen. If that could be simplified. Also took a couple of goes each time to submit on any of the forms. Will persevere [?] until the Pro option is back on again.
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Mob-blog Test First test of try to blog from my Palm over Bluetooth/GPRS. OK apart from the fact it ignores CRs.
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Didn't want to lose this story. Looking through cats' eyes - although almost 4 years old it shows what could be done - and would love to find out how far advanced this tech is now. Scientists wired up a cat's brain to see what it was seeing through its own eyes.
Compare and contrast with:
which shows what a blind man fitted with a camera wired into his brain sees. Again the story is 3.5 years old.
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Future of Space Flight
Interesting article on the Future of Spaceflight at space.com. Mars and Moon bases and outer solar system exploration by the end of the century. Not far off my own working assumptions. I'd probably add the first interstellar probe - Project Deadelus style - leaving second half of the century and arriving in the first quarter of the 22nd century. I'll upload my space time-line sometime.
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Another area I want to touch on in this blog is robots. Whilst the best I'll probably be able to rustle up over the next few years is something around Lego Mindstorms I think that robotics has a great future ahead of it. Speculative essays later, but for now I just want to collect some of the key robot developments around today. At Number 1 has to be Sony's Aibo.
I had a play with one at Orange's Future House. The girl's bedroom had one. It also had a smart board that was used to display the Aibo's camera view and provide touch control of the robot so you could send it through the house and get a live video feed back. Great fun. All the Exec's I had with me to look at the more serious side of the technology in the house went away remembering Aibo but little else! If Aseriti actually starts making some serious money the MD and I have promised we'll get the company to buy one. Ever wanted your utility bill read out by a robotic dog?
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These are copied across from my old static site. I'll link them in due course.
Music: Tangerine Dream, Marillion, Pink Floyd/Roger Waters, 10,000 Maniacs, Throwing Muses, Ultravox, Stockhausen, Wagner, Klaus Schulze
Books: Iain (M) Banks, Alisdair Gray, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Dave Sims(Cerebus), Paul Gallici (Erma Felna)
Films: Blade Runner, Tarkvosky, Woody Allen, 2001, Excalibur, Diva/Betty Blue, Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Luc Besson, Ghost in the Shell
TV: Flipside of Dominic Hide, Gerry Anderson, Butterflys, Drop the Dead Donkey, Frasier, Friends, The High Life, Thirtysomething, 24, Babylon 5, Serial Experiments: Lain
Gurus: John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Schumacher
Graphic Novels: Halo Jones, Cerebus, Albedo, Puma Blues, Love and Rockets, Doonesbury, Red Star
Places: Birmingham, Malawi, Finland, West Coast, Pacific North West, Berlin, Paris, Snowdonia, Lakes, Nassau, Kilimanjaro, South Island NZ, Retshmalh Crossing - Alpha World
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