The problem is actually that today’s ideology of choice-led capitalism, the idea that everyone is a maker of his or her life, which goes very much against the reality of the social situation, actually pacifies people and makes us constantly turning criticism towards ourselves instead of organizing ourselves and making a critique of the society [...]
Category Archives: Musings
Imagine Language Consolidation
May 20, 2011 – 8:35 pm
I started programming in BASIC on a Commodore 64. From there it was GW-BASIC on an 8086 PC, Pascal, C on AIX/Linux, Perl, minimal Java, and for the last 11 years good chunk of Python. I don’t really consider myself that advanced in the field, frankly. It’s not my full-time day job. However, if you [...]
Carbon Footprint of World Community Grid
May 13, 2011 – 8:56 am
After my first successful overnight contribution of compute power to the World Community Grid, I started wondering about the energy part of that donation, and then the overall CO2 footprint of all of the computing being done. Given our global energy and climate situation, sometimes we have hard decisions to make: Do I reduce my [...]
Sysadmin-Only Posts
April 4, 2011 – 3:41 pm
If you’re subscribed to my RSS feed generally, and only care about sysadmin posts, the feed for that is: http://www.kickflop.net/blog/category/sysadmin/feed
Flickr: You’re doing it wrong
April 4, 2011 – 3:38 pm
I go to share a flickr photo of mine with Facebook friends and this is what I’m presented with. Gee, no thank you, Yahoo/flickr.