Monitoring Dalager

Just arrived at my parents’ cottage on the Danish west coast. Looking forward to a hopefully relaxing week. Although I have some work to do that I really should accelerate…

The thing is that when I come here I always get soooooo tired, wanting to sleep a couple of days after which I reach a laid back down-tempo half feel state of mind. Here, playing with the dog seems like an appropriate intellectual challenge.

Throw a stick.

Sleep.

Eat.

Throw a stick.

Check pulse.

Repeat.

Not exactly compatible with productivity…

BTW: I’m testing the w.bloggar blogging tool being unsatisfied with the web interface of MT under slow GPRS-connections. Don’t like the mozblog either.
So far I find w.bloggar quite promising. It would be nice, if it supported SCP for uploads though as I’m not too fond of passing clear text passwords.

Update: Went to the beach and took a new snapshot of Bonnie (the third golden retriever with that name in our family…)

The Road to Oceania - NYT piece by William Gibson. (free registration required).

In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

The part about information transparency and the dead of the secret is interesting.
I think I’d better buy his new book “Pattern Recognition”, which should be less cyber than his previous releases.

I’ll shut this baby down with another quote:

A world of informational transparency will necessarily be one of deliriously multiple viewpoints, shot through with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories and a quotidian degree of madness.

Am I overquoting?

Algorithm for Determining Imagination from Reality (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)

This is simple applied mathematics:

Let’s say you’re torn between two worlds. You know that one is a fevered delusion that your mind has created and the other one is reality, but which is which? (Also, you can do accurate multiplication by hand.) Apply this algorithm in both worlds.

Aaron is really onto something here, showing us how to detect a made-up-world from within by using a calculator and interacting with the inhabitants of this maybe environment. But what if your delusional mind also created the calculators?
You see, there is really no escape from delusion…

Today Telmore, a Danish mobile service provider, opened up for 3 months of introductory free GPRS. And 10 minutes ago I got connected through my T68i. And this is on-the-road-mobile-blogging! From my livingroom though…

The waiting for ADSL is somewhat lighter now with 28kbps flat rate.
I hope they will come up with a decent GPRS pricing, as people might get addicted — IMHO it bears a disturbing resemblance to the classic crack dealer trick: “here, you can have the first one for free”…