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Gramsci’s famous quote (which I paraphrase as ‘Pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will’) unexpectedly resonates at the end of this podcast from CBC Radio’s “Out of Their Minds” program about Tesla-like inventors who persist on their vision despite public/peers’ resistance. To quote, A tragic hero? Maybe, maybe it’s a hybrid of both. But [...]

Dennis Ritchie passed away recently. The fact that you can read this from afar has much to do with his work. The foundation of the Internet, and much of the phones and other computing/commnication devices and systems which you and I use, knowingly or otherwise, lie directly on his work. Even if you go into [...]

There are 120 million blogs on the Internet. 119,999,000 of those have long been abandoned, or will soon be so, and the rest are funded by right-wing think-tanks or corporations! That blogging and social networking take up excessive amounts of time is a surprise to only the uninitiated. It’s been a truism, since the early [...]