Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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A new computer game teaches the strategies of non-violent resistance/conflict. Intriguing. From the web site “A Force More Powerful : The Game of Nonviolent Strategy“, Can a computer game teach players how to defeat real-world adversaries – dictators, military occupiers, and corrupt rulers – by bypassing laser rays and AK47s and choosing instead a non-military…
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Great article on one man’s quest to hear music again through his cochlear implant. I’d definitely agree that going beyond mere utility into extra research to improve the overall quality of life is worth it. I can’t imagine a world without music myself. See Wired 13.11: My Bionic Quest for Boléro.
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Well the Apple iTMS is up and going in Australia. I wonder if the Apple Australia Store login I already have works with it? New Zealanders who want to buy Apple software and licences for things like Quicktime have to create an Apple Australian account with the NZ city as part of New South Wales.…
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Even though I’ve been a Mac person since 1986, as well as a UNIX programmer and sysadmin, there’s always something new to learn. Like this tip from the Apple web site. I was wondering how to click on a file on the desktop in OS X and then print it (printing used to be on…
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Tony Long (The Luddite) in his column at Wired writes on reducing the hype around technology. See Wired News: Dark Underbelly of Technology. And that’s the reason for this column: to lend a contrarian perspective to a world besotted with technology and all its bright, glittery appeal. This is not, as some of my colleagues…
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Just got round to listening to the podcast Open Source » Blog Archive » Google Sociology. Downloaded it a while back but never got around to listening to it. So I left it playing while working on some AI stuff and tuned in when things caught my interest. Google is changing the way we understand…
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In this week’s NZ Listener Russell Brown’s column “Wide Area News” is mostly dedicated to the ongoing tensions, or should that be conflict, between established providers of information (i.e. encyclopaedia publishers) and projects like Wikipedia. Some interesting points about Wikipedia and its like being open to the placement of “viral marketing.” See: NZ Listener –…
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Okay, so I’ve installed WordPress 1.5 and it works well. No problems with the install on my web host, it connects to Ecto fine and from the comments in the blogosphere is handles spam well. Plus it has a polling module which I want to add. But getting it to look like I want could…
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Looks promising – Greasemonkey – a user-centric model for controlling the content you see in your web browser. See Wired 13.09: START : Monkeying With the Web. Arvind at Movalog notes that the new MT 3.2 styles and layout lend itself to Greasemonkey style hacking.
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I’ve been playing around with this over the past few days. Looks like it will be a toss-up between WordPress and the new, improved Movable Type for this blog. Only have one author for this personal blog so licensing isn’t the issue it might be for multi-author type blogs. The style management in MT3.2 looks…