Use Your Own Heuristics

January 16th, 2006

I read a nice blog post five minutes ago. It’s written by a guy who’s fed up with people putting him in the pigeon hole that is labelled “that computer bloke”–yes–that’s the one next to the little yellow post-it that says “why try myself when I can bother him”.

I really don’t think that it’s a […]

Being a Human

December 18th, 2005

Being a human is about ignoring and abstracting things. Give a computer an endless task and it will continue running it for all time. Give a human an endless task and it will ignore it.

–Me, right now, thinking.

Humanist Wedding

June 18th, 2005

Today a couple in Scotland were married under a new law stating that non-religious weddings don’t need to have a separate civil ceremony for them to be legal. This is probably a European first, though other countries such as Australia and New Zealand have already implemented this.
They’re going to be married in Edinburgh Zoo, I […]