Apple launched the iPad and it was pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting. Depending on what model you buy it’s either a giant iPod touch or a giant iPhone, and I agree with Fraser Speirs – it’s the future of general-purpose computing devices.
And that makes me so sad.
I touched on the reason why in [...]
This article was originally published at Witchvox.
At times, Technopaganism can seem like an almost invisible niche of Paganism. Mainstream books and online resources nearly always have a very heavy pastoral or rural slant and it can be very difficult to find real examples of everyday Technopagan practices. To help counter this, I am going to [...]
Witchvox, a more mainstream/general Paganism site, have just published an article I wrote about Twittermancy – Twittermancy and Open Sourcery.
I’m not sure how well it’s going to go down with the more general Pagan crowd, and I really wish it wasn’t next to an article about ‘never again the burning times!!’, but I hope it [...]
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Posted 27 September 2009
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Ages ago I registered urbanpaganism.info, and set up a basic wiki for a community I’d set up for people who practice Paganism in urban environments and were fed up the usual hippy clap-trap advice like ‘grow plants in a window box’ and ‘visit the countryside’ when it came to experiencing Paganism in the city.
It never [...]
The Large Hadron Collider is being started up today. Despite the press going mental today is only one beam starting up and the whole thing is entirely safe.
It is nice to see some attention in the mainstream media for this kind of big science, though.
The LHC is a massive project which has involved some of [...]
Everyone knows that security is important. I’ve talked before about DenyHosts, which watches for attempts to brute-force your SSH passwords and blocks them.
I could probably live fairly happily without DenyHosts, since my passwords aren’t going to be caught by a brute-force attack based on dictionary words and while every password is vulnerable to a brute-force [...]
Things are quite quiet at the moment in both my day job and in the hosting.
That’s not to say that both aren’t keeping me busy, but it’s the sort of busy that’s not interesting to write about. There’s not been any fun experiments with virtualisation or other shiny toys to write about.
So I thought this [...]
