Most people have a finely honed sense of what is not necessary. We smell it out and reject it wholesale. This only becomes more stringent the more you learn and live and read.

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy.
I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
just to stand before you like a thing,
dark and shrewd.
I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,
and never to be too blind or too old
to hold your heavy, swaying image.
I want to unfold.
Nowhere do I want to remain folded,
because where I am bent and folded, there I am lie.
And I want my meaning
true for you. I want to describe myself
like a painting that I studied
closely for a long, long time,
like a word I finally understood,
like the pitcher of water I use every day ,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that carried me
through the deadliest storm of all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I sometimes think - if you're complaining in life, you're kinda missing the point.

The Greenhouse Restaurant

One of the most amazing dinning experiences I've ever had the pleasure of enjoying.

The Greenhouse Restaurant

We had the Tasting menu below. Each of the seven courses were utterly impressive.

Devon spider crab and salmon parfait
courgette flower tempura, kombu jelly and coriander cress
•
Diver caught Scottish scallop
summer truffles, giblet parfait, fresh peas and mangetout
•
Pan-fried foie gras with Solliès figs
Sicilian lemon marmalade, goat cheese and basil leaves
•
Wild turbot
Chioggia beetroot, quail egg and “beurre meunière” espuma
•
Anjou pigeon
wild rocket, fava beans and medjool date ragoût
•
Pineapple sorbet
white chocolate mousse, olive oil and fresh basil
•
Chocolate and toffee tart
“Guanaja” and lemon sorbet

Truly a London dinning experience to remember.

Yma Sumac

Beautiful! Yma Súmac.

Sydney is to London as Wellington is to Sydney.

OCaml and Perl6. OCaml and Perl6!

Harold Pinter

The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library

Study these guys

Pierre Tal-Coat

André Masson

Bram van Velde

Isis - Grinning Mouths

Isis - Backlit

Zarathustra

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: “Ever God hath his hell: it is his love for man.”

And lately did I hear him say these words: “God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”—Zarathustra, II., "The Pitiful."

from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Mountain - PJ Harvey

Faust

I HAVE, alas! Philosophy,
Medicine, Jurisprudence too,
And to my cost Theology,
With ardent labour, studied through.
And here I stand, with all my lore,
Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Faust Part I

The Pareto curve of freedom post over at Shtetl-Optimized (which I recommend as well).

The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. Wow! Heh.

"I brainstorm all potential possibilities, regularly, just in case."

-Me

Jürgen Habermas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas

Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funny

For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world. I spent the remainder of my youth in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding intercourse with men of different dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, in proving myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me, and, above all, in making such reflection on the matter of my experience as to secure my improvement. For it occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each individual with reference to the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted by a man of letters in his study, regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable. In addition, I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed it in with confidence.

Discourse on Method - Rene Descartes

The science of love, and the future of women - Helen Fisher

Watched a great preso by Larry Wall on Perl 6 and associated ideas/philosophy/direction. I love this stuff. I really love this stuff. I stumbled across this link whilst reading a post by Chris Dolan on his blog over at Code Flux.

Great stuff.

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting... by Larry Wall. Brilliant read. People need to take a more holistic approach to their programming. One of the comments to this article summed it up nicely - this should be required reading for anyone aspiring to call themselves a programmer.

But then I'm perl biased (probably because I know it well unlike most of its detractors? :D).

Cool street art.

Stranger Things Have Happened - Foo Fighters

Another fine song. Hey I never said I wasn't a wishful thinker - *nudge* *nudge*, *wink* *wink* :D

goddamn this dusty room
this hazy afternoon
i'm breathing in this silence like never before
this feeling that i get
this one last cigarette
as i lay awake and wait for you to come through that door
oh maybe, maybe, maybe i can share it with you
i behave i behave i behave so i can share it with you

you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
so stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know
i'm not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know, oh ohh, oh ohhh

you'll dream about somewhere, a smoke will fill the air
as i lay awake and wait for you to walk out that door
i can change, i can change, i can change, but who do you want me to be?
i'm the same, i'm the same, i'm the same, what do you want me to be?

you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know oh ohh, oh ohhh

i am not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
you are not alone dear loneliness
you forgot but i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know

i am not alone dear loneliness
i forgot that i remember this
oh stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened i know oh ohh, oh ohhh

Does this give you a hardon?

$ perldoc -f fork

If you "fork" without ever waiting on your children, you will accumulate zombies. On some systems, you can avoid this by setting $SIG{CHLD} to "IGNORE". See also perlipc for more examples of forking and reaping moribund children.

I thought so.

Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Let It Die

A heart of gold but it lost its pride
Beautiful veins and bloodshot eyes
I see your face in another light
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
In too deep and out of time
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

A simple man and his blushin' bride
(Why'd you have to go and let it die?)
Interveinious, intertwined
(Why'd you have to go and let it die?)

Hearts gone cold, your hands were tied
(Why'd you have to go and let it die?)
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
(Why'd you have to go and let it die?)

Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
In too deep and out of time
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Do you ever think of me?
You're so considerate
Do you ever think of me?
Oh, so considerate

In too deep and lost in time
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Beautiful veins and bloodshot eyes
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Hearts gone cold and hands are tied
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Do you ever think of me?
You're so considerate
Did you ever think of me?
Oh, so considerate

In too deep and lost in time
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Beautiful veins and bloodshot eyes
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Hearts gone cold and hands are tied
Why'd you have to go and let it die?
Why'd you have to go and let this die?

Why'd you have to go and let this die?
Why'd you have to go and let this die?
Why'd you have to go and let this die?
Why'd you have to go and let it die?

Foo(d) Fighters

And before anyone clammers to complain - yes I know this is hypocritical coming from me - but it's part of being in the moment, and being bundled in regrets, and it's just a damn fine song.

smh.com.au is a glorified Woman's Day

Paris Hilton hurts her chin in fall. Quick. Breaking news everyone! Why the fuck do I still check this site?

What is art?

Mathematics -> Music, Engineering -> Fine Arts. Nature. Pleasure. Cause of pleasure. Fine arts. Beauty. Aesthetic. What is pleasure? A nice bath? Critique of Judgement, Immanuel Kant. Mental state <- Beauty -> Pleasure. Patterns and shapes. Remove individuality from beauty -> Form -> Universal judgements.

So, abstraction, no visual relation to worldly things. 1912-1914. Crisis. "Break from beauty". Let's change the definition of art. Modernism. Revolution ala Enlightenment. How is this handled? George Dickey, Arthur Danto, link art to social practice. Historical tradition of making art, link objects like this. Urinal. Marcel Duchamp. Linked his urinal to the art work -> it's a work of art. "Institutional theory". Richard Wollheim. Do we have reasons? Or do we just have a collection of objects. "Married person" analogy. Perhaps refuted institutional theory.

Tracey Emin. Damien Hurst. "I am an artist. Therefore this is a work of art". Silly!

Relative merits of art. Do we need convincing art? How do we compare it?



I have a little over 2000 Saturday afternoons left in my life. What to do with them?

All ideas courtesy of Philosophy Bites by Nigel Warburton.

"On the Sufferings of the World"

More Schopenhauer goodness:

Accordingly, the sole thing that reconciles me to the Old Testament is the story of the Fall. In my eyes, it is the only metaphysical truth in that book, even though it appears in the form of an allegory. There seems to me no better explanation of our existence than that it is the result of some false step, some sin of which we are paying the penalty.

Don't even get me started on his essay on Women (with a capital W).

Very funny guy.

Noise

Hilarious rant on "noise" from Schopenhauer's "Studies in Pessimism":

There is something even more disgraceful than what I have just mentioned. Often enough you may see a carter walking along the street, quite alone, without any horses, and still cracking away incessantly; so accustomed has the wretch become to it in consequence of the unwarrantable toleration of this practice. A man's body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect? Carters, porters, messengers--these are the beasts of burden amongst mankind; by all means let them be treated justly, fairly, indulgently, and with forethought; but they must not be permitted to stand in the way of the higher endeavors of humanity by wantonly making a noise. How many great and splendid thoughts, I should like to know, have been lost to the world by the crack of a whip? If I had the upper hand, I should soon produce in the heads of these people an indissoluble association of ideas between cracking a whip and getting a whipping.

Hunky Jesus competition

From the Hunky Jesus competition:

Catholics have labelled the annual pageant blasphemous, considering that previous entrants have included "old school Jesus", "surfer Jesus" and "zombie Jesus", an irreverent take on the Easter message of Christ rising from the dead.

But the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence insist the contest is all part of their mission to "promote universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt".

Neurosis interview

Is this insanity?

Thanks to Fisher for putting me on to these guys. I can't believe I haven't found them before!

Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell restores my faith in all that is twee. No really, she's a kickarse artist. Check her out!

Veal

I point you to the wikipedia page on the topic of veal, and in particular the juxtaposition of these two images:




Thank you.

Mathematical induction is a form of deductive reasoning.

Numenta and Jeff Hawkins

Numenta looks interesting. Picked up on this guy on a TED talk called Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing. Pretty interesting stuff. I wonder if modeling the neocortex so simply is going to work. Watched another interesting video on MIT World called Can a New Theory of the Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines?. Excellent talk.

I have all sorts of questions about the validity of assuming that science is complete enough to synthesise intelligence.

Geeks can't send files?

10:06
Michael
I'll try sending you a file

10:07
adrian
ok

10:07
Michael
Oh no, you have to be using gtalk as well.

10:07
adrian
yeah

10:07
Michael
That's fucked.

10:07
adrian
thought so
yeah
bugger

10:08
Michael
Well, back to base64 encoding

10:08
adrian
hah
awesome
bring it on

10:08
Michael
Hang on - I'll just find an encoder
Can't be stuffed writing one.
Can't find a good one - I'll just slap a quick app together.
Hang on, found one
Ah, this piece of shit converter is no good.

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adrian
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could you decode that ok?

10:24
Michael
I'm just going to write a quick java app using the sun decoder.
What sort of file was that last one?

10:25
adrian
jpg

10:25
Michael
Cool thanks.

10:25
adrian
tell me what is it

10:25
Michael
Will do, in about 5 minutes

10:25
adrian
this is how I encoded it
perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; open(my $fh, "/Users/adrian/Pictures/redfox.jpg"); my $contents = <$fh>; my $encoding = encode_base64($contents); print $encoding';

one liner baby

10:26
Michael
Haha - too easy.
Oh man, this is fucked, rad (eclipse) is just hanging.

10:30
adrian
do you have perl installed
?

10:30
Michael
Hang on, I'll do it in .net

10:30
adrian
haha
bring it on
you could just do "echo <blah> | perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; print decode_base64(<>);' > ~/out.jpg"

where blah is clipboard

10:34
Michael
Damn, if only I had perl or even cygwin installed on this laptop

10:34
adrian
superior tools!
j/k
well now it's a challenge at least

10:35
Michael
They are superior tools

10:35
adrian
I should have sent you something to make it worth while
how good is that though.. a perl one liner to get around GTalk dodgeyness

10:41
Michael
Fark, finally

10:41
adrian
you're good
.NET

10:41
Michael
Man, he's got his head buried

10:41
adrian
that's fast
hehe

Update:

11:04
Michael

Here's my goodness:

FileStream ins = new FileStream("C:\\temp\\base64.txt", FileMode.Open);
StreamReader r = new StreamReader(ins);
string contents = r.ReadToEnd();
byte[] c = Convert.FromBase64String(contents);
FileStream outs = new FileStream("C:\\temp\\something.jpg", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
outs.Write(c, 0, c.Length);

Budget
Not even stream based.
(the encoding I mean)

What a smarty.

11:10
Michael

Haha
Here's the condensed version:

byte[] c = Convert.FromBase64String(new StreamReader(new FileStream("C:\\temp\\base64.txt", FileMode.Open)).ReadToEnd());
new FileStream("C:\\temp\\something.jpg", FileMode.OpenOrCreate).Write(c, 0, c.Length);

Lovely.

Can someone please tell this guy to stop trying to beat:

echo <blah> | perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; local $/; print decode_base64(<>);' > ~/out.jpg

:)

So now that http://scala-tools.org is back, I could build a basic scala app for about 30 minutes before I started getting this lovely error:

[INFO] Velocimacro : initialization starting.
[INFO] Velocimacro : adding VMs from VM library template : VM_global_library.vm
[ERROR] ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader.
[INFO] Velocimacro : error using VM library template VM_global_library.vm : org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm'

and

[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /Users/adrian/development/lift-dev
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: evolve
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 43,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 71,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 97,column 25] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[INFO] ********************* End of debug info from resources from generated POM ***********************

We like that.

Lockhart's Lament

Everyone who thought they knew what mathematics was about, read this now. This whole paper really resonated with me. It's something that has been systematically killed in me since about year 5. I might start studying mathematics again.

That fact that http://scala-tools.org/ is currently down makes my life as a budding and excited lift developer somewhat oxymoronic.

Git as the basis for a backup system? Yes yes yes!

So you want to scale huh?

CircleShare always gets me excited. No wait, that's lift and Scala actors. No wait that's David Pollack. No wait..

I then put Butterfly on our production hardware (a quad-core Intel machine running @ 2.something Ghz with a hardware RAID card that has buffering.) At 10,000 simulated users (>650 requests per second) the server had a load average of about 0.40 and the Java and MySQL processes we using about 15% CPU (of the 400% available).

To date, I have not done any material performance tuning of either lift or Butterfly. I was pleasantly surprised that both performance the way I had hoped they'd performance. As expected, the DB seems to be the gating item in performance. As we scale CircleShare, I've got plenty of performance headroom using Scala Actors like I did with Skittr.

Spelling leaves a bit to be desired, but cool man. Very cool. Man.

This makes perfect sense! Moses was on drugs at the top of Mount Sinai. It's the most obvious explanation, so why don't more people talk about it. Really.

Read through and learn about the Plan 9 source code. 9.pdf looks great as a detailed design overview and code commentary.

Favourite code comment so far:

/*
 * Discover the disk geometry by various sleazeful means.
 *

from /plan9/sys/src/libdisk/disk.c

:)

Learn about Ambient Calculus.

from www.spiegel.de

'Programmers At Work' blog goodness

Came across an informative, interesting, and inspirational blog today; Programmers At Work.

Two very interesting posts from the original PAW 1986 Interviews are a must read for people interested in computer science:

Charles Simonyi
Butler Lampson

Definitely subscribing to this one.

Hammer Filesystem, ZFS, DragonFlyBSD

Nice article comparing Sun's sexy new ZFS to HammerFS. Fuck me, both filesystems look cool. I've heard (rumours?) that Apple is considering ZFS for a future iteration of OS X. HammerFS or "HAMMER Filesystem" is looking kickarse. Perhaps more arse kicking, finger licking better than ZFS? Maybe! Read the article man - and decide for yourself. How does one man come up with a design like this? Crazy genius type stuff.

Anyway, this rave has all come about from the freaky legend why the lucky stiff blogging about cool stuff.

Yes, DragonFlyBSD looks a-some cool.

Lights, camera, action!

Really cool paper here explaining how event based actors were implemented in Scala, and why they scale better than thread based actors. I worked backwards to this from rooting around in some lift webapp source code. It seems the comet stuff in lift is implemented using these event based actors. I think this stuff might just get me interested in web development again :)

Also, Dynamic web applications with lift and Scala.

The Milford Track

Walking the Milford Track is definitely on the agenda in the next couple of months while I'm still working down in New Zealand.

"That's not wilderness - this is wilderness!" etc.

Lots of good info at www.milfordtrack.net.

Mirrors my thoughts on the whole conflict.

Building git on OS X 10.5

I had to install GNU gettext (instructions).

Apparently you don't need to install XML Expat on Leopard, but I did (instructions).

However, I still kept getting:

GITGUI_VERSION = 0.9.2
* new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
GEN git-gui
INDEX lib/
MSGFMT po/de.msg make[1]: *** [po/de.msg] Error
make: *** [all] Error 2

So I did:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
NO_MSGFMT=1 make
sudo make install

to use make with the environment variable NO_MSGFMT set to 1 (which bypasses the need to have gettext installed - so I guess it's not worth installing gettext). A bit of digging in google showed gettext can't understand the commandline arguments passed to it during git build - I haven't checked this out myself though.

CNN doesn't get it.

This is a scathing story about a dismissal from CNN on the grounds of "extra-work writing".

During my final conversation with Ed Litvak and a representative from HR, they hammered home a single line in the CNN employee handbook which states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" must be run through the network's standards and practices department.

Favourite lines:

Jesus, we have a Gestapo?

and

Corporate-think dictates that the mainstream television press as a monstrous multi-headed hydra is the ultimate news authority and therefore is in possession of the one and only hotline to the ghosts of Murrow and Sevareid. Sure those bloggers are entertaining, but in the end they're really just insects who either feed off the carcasses of news items vetted through various networks or, when they do break stories, want nothing more than to see themselves granted an audience by the kingmakers on television.

This, of course, is horseshit.

Good read.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

I used to suffer from Alice in Wonderland syndrome when I was a kid. Stumbled across this, this morning - had NO idea other people had experienced this. Didn't affect me for long (a few years), and only generally at night when I was trying to go to sleep - but the description fits perfectly (self diagnosis and all). Totally flipping out right now :)

Strapping Young Lad

Opeth

The Presets - Girl and The Sea

The Presets - Are you the one?

lift+scala == good webapps

lift+scala == good webapps. Task and project management type app to come for your working pleasure!

Wellington Harbour

An old red chug-tug rests wearily at its mooring. It rocks to the lap of ocean tickling its belly and shimmers in reflections along the skirt of it, along the lines where its body enters the deep green sea; the "Sea Lion Wellington". Further out in the open water a smaller sailing vessel crab-walks across the flat plane of reflected sky. A motorised tinny criss-crosses in the other direction. Two tiny life-jacket clad fishermen pose, heads still in a turn, tracking the oystered rock-roughage which is the shore. They speed out to sea, trailing a barely visible wake of white wash. Even further out, more white-sailed craft jostle and tack, up and down-wind. Great hunkering mountain ridges brood behind them, silent and monstrous in their contemplation of this whole harbour scene.

A white gull flattens and rides the air in a flapping of loops and breezy spirals. Beady eyes flicker to scan the shapes beneath her. She is quick. Her feathers are hefty and they shine. She is queen of her scrapdom.

"Strait Shipping" in capitals shouts across the vista between us. This great scrap of metal sluices in a slow tail-slide to angle away and out of the harbour. It breathes great bellyfuls of air to exhale acrid smoke from its many fluted exhaust towers. Smaller ships, like minnows in the shade of some great water monster hurry to give it free passage. Move, or be downtrodden!

Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong by E. E. Cummings [mp3]

Clown in the Moon

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas

www.smh.com.au - Really, why do we care?

"Kylie offers words of wisdom for Britney"?
"Party boy Corey in possible brawl"?
"Hoax caller poses as Ledger's dad"?
"Sly set for Rambo V"?

I think I'm close to giving up on mainstream media.

Live coding at V2_

Found this very interesting. Have been following live coding stuff for a while, and have heaps of ideas myself :D (Personal project material!). Alex McLean's blog is definitely worth subscribing too.

This post discusses some live coding sessions at V2_ (Institute for Unstable Media) last month. Absolutely sexy cool ideas in this stuff. Here is the direct link to the video talk.

The mathematical nature of music is obviously well known and utterly fascinating. But on the practical side I think the distributed approach to music as a shared experience - listener becomes composer becomes listener becomes composer becomes.. - is very exciting.

Enjoy!

Deconstructing Finnegans Wake

This is brilliant.



Thank you Marshall McLuhan. Hehe!

James Joyce reads from "Finnegans Wake"

I challenge anyone to understand all of this.

Salman Rushdie Reads from "The Satanic Verses"

The Presets

Minority voting power

At the risk of sounding glib, surely the effect of "minority voting power" will have a minor effect?

Let's drum it up then! Minority voting power takes center stage (crappy journalism).

I signed the condolences book for Sir Edmund Hillary at Parliament House in Wellington today.

Beijing 2008

versus http://en.beijing2008.cn