19 May 2002

Choice quotes from Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. OOC is about self-sustaining systems, organic and artificial. 10:23:54 PM     comments

Long Now discussion on managing digital continuity The Long Now Foundation did an event on managing digital continuity called Time and Bits. Four and a half years on, let's revisit the discussion. 10:21:35 PM     comments

Hay Festival of Literature 2002 See also: Hay's bookshops (39 of them) 9:44:05 PM     comments

Disaster and Emergency Management 3:54:30 AM     comments

Ten technology disasters Nearly all of which were caused by bad or insufficient design, planning or management and/or by small defects starting a non-linear reaction (a tipping point) leading to larger failures. The AT&T network failure and Northeast electricity blackout are both classic examples - both suffered from failures caused by their own resiliency measures. 3:41:02 AM     comments