Few days ago to prepare myself for a new research era
I decided to put many of my source files free to download on my website
(and many will be added soon).
You can find anyway more explanations about why I'm doing that on the
related page:
http://nuthinking.com/goodies/downloads.htm
Feel free to pass this address to all the people you think could be
interested.
Thanks guys, chr
Few days ago to prepare myself for a new research era
I decided to put many of my source files free to download on my website
(and many will be added soon).
You can find anyway more explanations about why I'm doing that on the
related page:
http://nuthinking.com/goodies/downloads.htm
Feel free to pass this address to all the people you think could be
interested.
Thanks guys, chr
Flickr ist teilweise dazu übergegangen Bilder vor dem downloaden zu schützen, in dem sie ein transparentes gif über das Foto legen. Das der Schutz ziemlich simpel auszuhebeln ist zeigt dieses 10 Zeilen greasemonkey Skript. Einfach die Firefox Erweiterung greasemonkey installieren und das Skript installieren. Das Skript setzt die Breite des …
I am revisiting this article and kept this problem in mind. I figured out that the biggest problem are temporary, or better so called temporary files. You got several projects running at the same time and you put “temporary folders for temporary files”. It doesn’t matter if i look at my computer desktop or my real desk or my room. All that mess comes from temporary or not yet processed files. They build spontaneous structures in a space, where no structures should be. This space is not proposed to be structured, it should be blank space. This is a space, where the default should be an empty space. What can we do with this structures?
PS: That’s how life is. Sometimes coincidental. John Maeda also wrote this week about garbage. Read: Learning more thru less.
I am revisiting this article and kept this problem in mind. I figured out that the biggest problem are temporary, or better so called temporary files. You got several projects running at the same time and you put “temporary folders for temporary files”. It doesn’t matter if i look at my computer desktop or my real desk or my room. All that mess comes from temporary or not yet processed files. They build spontaneous structures in a space, where no structures should be. This space is not proposed to be structured, it should be blank space. This is a space, where the default should be an empty space. What can we do with this structures?
PS: That’s how life is. Sometimes coincidental. John Maeda also wrote this week about garbage. Read: Learning more thru less.
Nicht nur, dass ich Geburtstag habe. Heute ist auch Towel Day.
Eine teilweise etwas unentspannte Diskusion darüber wann aus einer Blüte ein Samenträger wird. Als Ergebniss gibt es auch schon erste Abspaltungen.
Auszüge:
A woman is not a baby just as a flower is not a seed.
is there also a petal group?
So the question must be, “Are we allowed to have bunches of …
Processing bekommt die Goldene Nica 2005 in der Kategorie Net Vision. Hier die Begründung:
Als neuartige, leicht verständliche Programmiersprache ermöglicht es “Processing”, das als freie Software erhältlich ist, Studenten, Künstlern, Designern und Architekten, virtuelle Prototypen zu entwerfen und zu produzieren. Das Programm kann einerseits als eine Art “virtuelles Skizzenbuch” andererseits aber …
So I only noticed yesterday that apparently the most recent message in the Processing forums was on the 18th, something i simply couldn’t believe… A quick sanity check of my local version quickly turned out the offending culprit wasn’t actually my fault. Someone has changed the HTML of the forum to bring it a step closer to validating and correctly put all tag attributes into double quotes. Good. Only problem was this tiny change stopped the main RegExp used for the feed generation from matching anything on that page - hence we had an empty feed for the past 4 days. Now fixed again until further (lack of) notice… 
UPDATE: There was actually a bit more broken/changed, and you also might have to remove and then re-add the feed in order to see the new items in your reader software. I don’t get quite why, but it seemed to have helped in Thunderbird…
Since i’ve heard the first time of Cubism i think about this example. Picasso and Braque were the ones who developed a direction in painting that is known as Cubism now. This painting shows objects not only in one perspective, but analyses the object from different perspectives at the same time. Below there is the picture “Demosielles d’Avignon” that was the initial point of Cubism. Picasso painted two noses of the woman “from diffrent perspectives at the same time”. That small “detail” lead to an overall new style, that even influenced architecture!
From Wikipedia:
“Picasso’s painting of the Demosielles d’Avignon is not considered cubist, however it is considered essential in the development of the movement. In this work Picasso first experiments with seeing the same object, or figure in this case, from various directions. Impressed by the painting, Braque experimented further with this idea. The developments of both men in the field would lead to what would be cubism.”
A painting from Picasso that follows the “analytical cubism”
Since i’ve heard the first time of Cubism I think about this example. Picasso and Braque were the ones who developed a direction in painting that is known as Cubism now. This painting shows objects not only in one perspective, but analyses the object from different perspectives at the same time. Below there is the picture “Demosielles d’Avignon” that was the initial point of Cubism. Picasso painted two noses of the woman “from diffrent perspectives at the same time”. That small “detail” lead to an overall new style, that even influenced architecture!
From Wikipedia:
“Picasso’s painting of the Demosielles d’Avignon is not considered cubist, however it is considered essential in the development of the movement. In this work Picasso first experiments with seeing the same object, or figure in this case, from various directions. Impressed by the painting, Braque experimented further with this idea. The developments of both men in the field would lead to what would be cubism.”
A painting from Picasso that follows the “analytical cubism”
This of course is a question that touches philosophical borders! Back in the days Kant was talking about categories and when organizing the harddisk, you have to think of categories too. In my thinking i try to avoid categories, or better: to always re-think categories, to let the thinking be fluid and organic. But the computer need directories and files that have a 100% clear path and after all you end up with a hell of mishmash on your local disk.
I have reinstalled my system and my harddisk is now free. I only installed applications i need everyday and loose all the dead files and directories on the pc. This is feeling really lightweight now! There is a directory for mp3, that one for my grafics etc. Very fine categories. But it is just matter of time, when the first files arrive, that does not fit in any of this categories. A very great source of -don’t know where to store this file- is Andreas lovely blog Glück Auf. I used to open a directory “stuff” and to put all files in there. Before the new installation i made a backup of this “stuff”. This “stuff” now lies on the server next to “old stuff” and “older stuff” and “quite more older stuff” waiting for the day to be cleaned up. I’m afraid that day will never come. Why just delete this stuff? No, there could be very precious and rare files between them! Besides: this is the same problem, why minimalistic interior design is not working in everyday situations. There is always that stuff.
The solution: i tend to only store files on local disk that are able to fit a category and that i really need. All other files just take too much space. And they can be everytime downloaded from the internet when you are on a fast internetconnection. That keeps everything fluid and brings us back to the opening philosophical question: what about categories, what should we store? In the harddisk only belong files that you need everyday. In the archive only belong files, that are not available anymore on the net: old but good softwareversions (i.e. winamp 2.9), raries and special releases (i.e. music releases), personal rubbish that isn’t worth beeing uploaded into the net.
This sounds good, but is in my opinons far too optimistic. Some lazy days and the disk is full again with stuff. And some files i jsut want to store for some days/weeks. Any other ideas? Leave a comment!
This of course is a question that touches philosophical borders! Back in the days Kant was talking about categories and when organizing the harddisk, you have to think of categories too. In my thinking i try to avoid categories, or better: to always re-think categories, to let the thinking be fluid and organic. But the computer need directories and files that have a 100% clear path and after all you end up with a hell of mishmash on your local disk.
I have reinstalled my system and my harddisk is now free. I only installed applications i need everyday and loose all the dead files and directories on the pc. This is feeling really lightweight now! There is a directory for mp3, that one for my grafics etc. Very fine categories. But it is just matter of time, when the first files arrive, that does not fit in any of this categories. A very great source of -don’t know where to store this file- is Andreas lovely blog Glück Auf. I used to open a directory “stuff” and to put all files in there. Before the new installation i made a backup of this “stuff”. This “stuff” now lies on the server next to “old stuff” and “older stuff” and “quite more older stuff” waiting for the day to be cleaned up. I’m afraid that day will never come. Why just delete this stuff? No, there could be very precious and rare files between them! Besides: this is the same problem, why minimalistic interior design is not working in everyday situations. There is always that stuff.
The solution: i tend to only store files on local disk that are able to fit a category and that i really need. All other files just take too much space. And they can be everytime downloaded from the internet when you are on a fast internetconnection. That keeps everything fluid and brings us back to the opening philosophical question: what about categories, what should we store? In the harddisk only belong files that you need everyday. In the archive only belong files, that are not available anymore on the net: old but good softwareversions (i.e. winamp 2.9), raries and special releases (i.e. music releases), personal rubbish that isn’t worth beeing uploaded into the net.
This sounds good, but is in my opinons far too optimistic. Some lazy days and the disk is full again with stuff. And some files i jsut want to store for some days/weeks. Any other ideas? Leave a comment!
[18Jun05] Update: The (philosophical) question remains open. What files should we store?
Taken this photo with love.