Now that geeks rule the world, will we allow the corporate dance to continue?
The Problem We’ve had a “problem” with our LTSP suite – the thin clients we use in our office haven’t been playing the sound from Youtube videos. I don’t really pay much heed to problems with proprietary software issues. “It’s broken because its proprietary” is my usual response. In addition, the idea of enabling a company that I want to be productive to watch (and actually listen) to stuff on Internet’s own brain candy gogglebox doesn’t seem a good idea….
Trying to pick up where the Big Green Gathering, the Green Gathering 2011 had a lot of familiar faces. Really, a lot of familiar faces, to the extent that most of the crew seemed almost identical to the BGG crews of old. I found the level of disorganization to also be similar.
One of the reason I started this blog was that I realized some of the things I do might be fairly interesting to some, the daylight cinema was one project I thought worthy. Last year I got together a portable sound system made out of off the shelf components, 12v battery, inverter, MP3 player and a set of 2.1 computer speakers. It’s been invaluable for getting people dancing out in the street over the past 2 years or so. It…