Author Archives: mike

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

July 20, 2009 – 12:01 pm

This time 40 years ago I was nine years old, discovering Jazz at night on the old valve radio my parents had given me (and yet to discover or have any particular interest in popular music) and breakfast cereal boxes had charts and pictures and cards and models of rockets and lunar modules. I remember [...]

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the digital divide

April 9, 2009 – 7:03 pm

There were two surprises to come out of the announcement of the national broadband network this week. The first was that the government got it right. I’d been hoping and praying for the last few months that they would have the balls and the vision and they have exceeded my expectations on both counts. Real [...]

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maybe facebook is finally becoming interesting

March 15, 2009 – 2:29 pm

People who mainly talk about themselves are hard to be around. Anything that tries to exist just for its own benefit gets to be pretty pointless after a while. It is one of the basic facts of the universe that things are most useful, most significant, most themselves when they point outside of themselves. It [...]

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