Saturday, 20 December 2003

Garden Santa Feans react to the draught by making a different kind of garden....It is great to have a camera always at hand, even if the picture quality is lousy...beautiful adobe wall, isn't it! 12:53:32 PM    comment []; Project Tibet Taken with the T610 phone cam today...This is Project Tibet...great place to do some holiday shopping! Quite a few Tibetans have moved to Santa Fe during the last decade. They seem to like the altitude as well as the attitude. 12:51:12 PM    comment []; Arthur C. Clarke As WorldChanging often links to sites and stories which reflect the ideas and activities of younger people, it is worth noting that one of my heroes, a person whose ideas and values parallel those of WorldChanging, just turned 86 years... [Another World Is Here] Sir Arthur C Clarke is acknowledged as the greatest living science fiction writer and an outstanding visionary of our times. His writing over the past six decades – more than 100 books, 1,000 articles and short stories – have not only helped humanity find its way in times of rapid change, but also discussed the social and cultural implications of key technologies. In 1945, while still in his late 20s, he was the first to propose the concept of using a network of satellites in the geo-synchronous orbit for television and telecommunications. His vision became a reality in the mid 1960s, and within a generation, humankind has come to rely critically on the network of comsats placed, in what is now called the Clarke Orbit, some 22,300 miles above the earth. His science fiction books and science facts have inspired generations of astronauts, scientists and technological innovators. Among them is Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer engineer who invented the World Wide Web, inspired by a Clarke science fiction story (‘Dial F for Frankenstein’) in his adolescent years. And I find that he sounds younger than many people half his age.... 8:38:51 AM    comment []; Robophilia or Robophobia? Robots, long the key symbol of The Future in fiction, are pushing their way into the present. But as with most futurism-made-manifest, the reality of robots will likely be quite different from cinematic or literary musings. What prompted this for... [Another World Is Here] Since we were talking about Robots he other day.... 7:23:10 AM    comment []; Sony Ericsson T610 I switched to a T610 and am quite happy with my choice. I considered the Treo 600, but did not like the fact that the lens protecting the camera is flush with the body of the phone....which means it will get scratched very quickly. For me to spend that kind of money I would want the camera to be 1mp anyway. They'll probably really get it right sometime next year.....in the meantime I have the T610, which is smaller, has bluetooth and cost me nothing, in fact I am getting money back from amazon.com.... 6:54:14 AM    comment []; Old postcards of Koeln/Cologne 6:42:26 AM    comment []; John F. Simon Jr.'s Wave 6:41:25 AM    comment [];

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