Resilient Manufacturing and SpimeScript

Something I'm thinking about a lot at the moment is resilient, local, sustainable, on-demand manufacturing :

• Over on SmartDisorganised, a quick post about SpimeScript. 

• I'm currently organising the London Future Manufacturing meetup. And having some parallel conversations at the London Hackspace. If you're in London and into this stuff, get in touch.

• I have a new project in the works which I'll be unveiling soon ...

My Sites

Several of my sites (http://www.synaesmedia.net, http://gbloink.com, http://optimaes.info etc.) seem to be down giving database errors. Nothing to do with me. Probably something with the hosting service.

I'll post here when I find out more.

Code. Think. Make. Play.

I just iterated once more on my personal homepage.

I rather liked the large-tiles I used for my Goldsmiths Portfolio so I'm experimenting with folding them into my more general web presence.

Synaesmedia.net still isn't meant to be a blog. It's a one-shot overview of who am I am, balancing reasonably up-to-date projects with a couple of classics for context, and an extensive list of where else to find me online. Hope that makes sense to new visitors.

Horrible things about getting old #2 :

My question to Quora : Now I'm old and overloaded with experience, how can I cultivate naive enthusiasm and credulity?

Horrible things about getting old #1 :

Everyone says you shouldn't get stuck in your ways and should be open to new ideas. You want to take that advice seriously and you know that you do seem to be getting fixed ... but you now know so many different ideas, that you can't tell which way to jump.

Top 5 Deathbed Regrets

Not surprising, but kind of sends shivers down your spine doesn't it.

My bike ... (sniff) .. stolen today, sometime between 2pm and 7pm, outside Goldsmiths.

I love Hackney, London : A place that can contain everything from London Hackspace to The Last Tuesday Society.

Lot going on in life at the moment ... big changes coming.

Keep you all posted ...

I guess there's still hope then ...

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Been quiet again, hasn't it?

I'm busy.

Hopefully over in a few weeks though ...

meanwhile, some random news / thoughts :

1) I have a bike! And biking in London is wonderful. Especially if most of your commute is along the canal tow-path. :-)

2) ThoughtStorms is blowing itself out!

Yes! Really!

I used to love that wiki. Now, for the umpteenth time in the last couple of years, it's frozen up on me because of file-system restrictions on the hosting service. Spammers forced me to close it to other contributors. I rarely update it, and then only as a LinkBin. It needs a bloody good refactoring and clean out of old, redundant, information.

And suddenly, I'm sick of it. I need something new ...

What that is, I don't know. My rewrite of SdiDesk in Python is ... well, 5 years late. I don't like all these new fangled wikis with their wysiwyg editors and massive plugin configurations and a markup-languages that I don't know. (Hrrrumph!)

I don't think it's blogging, although, as you can see, I do more blogging that wikiing now.

In fact, I'm starting to suspect that BillSeitz was right and I was clever but wrong in thinking that blogs and wikis couldn't really be integrated due to conceptual rather than technological incompatibilities. I'd love to be able to pool the best of ThoughtStorms writing with Composing / SmartDisorganized / PlatformWars etc.

I'd love refactoring tools to help sift and mine and reorganize my writing from one place to another.

I'd love the power of git or mercurial distribute source-control behind my writing on different devices.

Yeah, but do I love it enough to sit down and write it?

3) Watch this awesome talk by Tim O'Reilly. Good inspiration for anyone thinking what to do next.

A fox I caught foraging in my mother's garden one snowy afternoon last week.

Skin cancer cured by cultivating immune-cells outside the patient's body.

OK, back from Recife, photos soon,

Meanwhile, back to work tomorrow. :-(

And, as part of the very slow, incremental upgrade of my online life, there's a new OPTIMAES blog, the aim of which is to replace the OPTIMAES wiki as the main place to talk about OPTIMAES. (Despite the overall wonderfulness of wiki, blogs seem to be better at holding a conversation.) I'll also do more of my general writing about alt.money there. Previously I did it on Tribe, but that now seems to be hidden from non-members.