Notes from a curious life.

Interesting new social siteupMeetup: Organizing local interest groups.very simple interface apparently Pierre Omidyar, the founder and Chair of eBay has made an investment in it. No meetings in Cambridge yet!

Now been running the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com into my gmail account. In little over 2 hours it received 22 spam messages of which gmail only managed to filter 10 as spam. Obviously the google guys have a lot of work to do. The spam messages were very straightforward ones mailwasher would have disposed of them instantly.

On my way to posting the fact that Laurence Lessig is appearing at THe Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 at 7.30pm on the 27th May to discuss “Creative Commons in a Connected World” tickets available here for £10.75. Google kindly offered me a gmail email account, goodness knows what I will do with it maybe […]

Fascinating article from a great site on how many bowel ailments are caused by western style toilets and how much better squatting is for you. Sounds sensible even at a simple mechanical level. “The rectum has a built-in “kink” designed to maintain continence. It only straightens out when squatting” PoopReport.com: Your Source for Poop. Certainly […]

Here is an alternative to bluetooth called zigbee that looks very promising for home automation. Low power with a very fast wake up time. Time to get into the home automation business me thinks FAQs