Cognitive Conga: a blog

I ran across (quite literally; I was out for a jog) the Cambridge BioBlitz at dusk on Coe Fen, and stopped to join a crowd of people gathered around a crowd of insects gathered on a vertical white bed sheet gathered around one side of a bright white lantern.

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Below is an email I received a little while ago from Larry Lessig of Change Congress. Be warned, it contains potential triggers. (A trigger is an account of an event that may trigger debilitating involuntary flashbacks in people exposed to traumas related to the event described in the account. For more on triggers, read the entirety of this, though be aware it contains triggers.)

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I dreamed last night about two British media phenomena that are usually far from my mind: EastEnders and Simon Cowell.

This is a little whiny, which I’ll apologise for at the outset.

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If your browser supports it, this site's pages will be served to you as application/xhtml+xml. What on earth does that mean? It means it's standards compliant, for one thing. But standards compliance is pretty pointless if the standards weren't designed with good reason. Let's explore the issue a little.

I don't normally blog about work or related matters, but it's the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin (or CD as we call him) in a few hours, on 12 February 2009.

It recently occurred to me that it might be possible for a proficient computer user with a bit of spare time to follow a fairly simple procedure that would have the twin benefits of helping to prosecute providers of online child abuse content and/or holding the Internet Watch Foundation to account (more…)

I’m taking a brief break from work to watch the inauguration, live. Hurrah!

Touch wood, the new site theme is working for you. It’s working for me.

There are various other changes below the surface, which should, I hope, make it easier for me to extend the site with various things I think would be useful to me, friends, family, etc. We’ll see how that goes.

If you spot any bugs, please let me know so I can fix them. Thanks
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Just a quick note to let you know that I’m planning to re-arrange sampablokuper.com a bit at some point fairly soon. As the existing site was set up on a shoestring time-and-money budget, primarily as a means to explore blogging, and to see if I enjoyed it or not, it wasn’t particularly built with future migrations in mind (well, it was, but I wasn’t sure which of the many plausible migrations available I would end up choosing, so there was only so much I could do). As such, it’s possible that the URLs of the site’s RSS feeds will change when I rearrange things. The URLs of some of the contents will probably change too, but the old URLs should still work; they’ll just redirect to the new locations, all going well.
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