yamahito

I’ve been of the opinion for a long time now that ecological = economical in the long term. Unfortunately high short-term outlays mean that a lot of us can’t afford to tile our roof with energy cells and sit back watching our meters running backwards.

I’ve long been of the opinion that the government should encourage ecological improvements at home by helping with this initial outlay.

Now the Lib Dems here in the UK have come up with an idea that addresses just this point.

OK, it would be even better if they were willing to match a certain amount of that with a grant, since we’re spending money for the public good, but at least they’re willing to make a start.

The only problem is that the Lib Dems, UK’s third largest political party, haven’t been in power since 1915 (disclaimer: I am not a historian).

Still, Labour stole most of their manifesto in the 1996 elections (including, shock horror, student loans), so there’s still a chance the idea will see the light of day. I hope so, anyway.

I’m not very good at that, either.

Since last (seriously) posting I’ve been to Ireland for a seminar on remotely managing and administrating Apple Macs, and I want to talk about that at some point. I’ve begun to implement Getting Things Done, and you bet I’ll be talking about that as soon as I’ve made some progress.

usbiquitous

But for now, something a bit fun:

dialog05 is a series of art works (I think they’re all real sculptures rather than renders or photoshops) based around the ubiquitous USB plug. (heh, usbiquitous might have made a good name for it )

I’m not very good at it: perhaps I should try one or both of these?

Windows: Hippo Update Checker

Mac: App Update Widget

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