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The archives for 2011

1. Computing costs for the Small Developer: VPS or Cloud

   As promised in my earlier post about the advantages of Cloud hosting for lone developers, I’ve tried to put together some numbers. I’ve chosen to compare my favourite VPS based hosting providers with a couple of the most popular Cloud services: Rackspace and Amazon. Choosing the services to compare I’ve tried to select VPS and [...]

   • 12^th August 2011
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   Tagged with:

   • cloud
   • vps

2. Building an iCon

   The iCon building in Daventry was commissioned a couple of years ago as …a new landmark … and a beacon for the low carbon economy in the UK and beyond. Well it’s open now, so what’s a one-man startup to make of it?

   • 30^th June 2011
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3. Benefits of the Cloud for the Small Developer

   Problems with a production server – that took much longer than I’d have liked to fix – led my thoughts to the opportunities provided by Cloud computing for solitary developers like me.

   • 20^th June 2011
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4. More machines of loving grace

   This week Adam Curtis turned his eye on humans and how science reduced us to nothing but machines controlled by genes bent on their own survival, controversial as always.

   • 7^th June 2011
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   Tagged with:

   • emergence
   • evolution

5. Objectivism as the cause of all evil

   At my Father’s bidding I just watched the first episode of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace on BBC’s iplayer – a first for me – and found myself compelled to try and organise my thoughts. As a sometimes blogger, and at the risk of commoditising myself, it seems appropriate to do that [...]

   • 30^th May 2011
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   Tagged with:

   • emergence
   • philosophy

6. Fear of Reform

   I’ve just watched an edition of “People and Power” on Al Jazeera about the situation in Yemen. It ignored the government Officials to focus on the views of Yemenis from both sides of the political divide, and there does appear to be two sides in Yemen. If that’s the case in Yemen then may be [...]

   • 17^th March 2011
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   Tagged with:

   • politics

7. Is shape an illusion?

   I’m occasionally subject to interesting, if abstract thoughts, and the most recent to pop into my mind concerned the nature of physical shape. It seems to me that shape is too dependent upon solidity of matter, and this raises a problem, because the existence of anything solid feels filled with intentionality.

   • 13^th January 2011
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   • physics