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Posted April 22, 2011 By Landis V

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/22/165217/How-People-Broadcast-Their-Locations-Without-Meaning-To?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Companies are like evolving living organisms.  Think of the dotcoms – they are the genetic offspring of business and the internet – two different families in the genetic hierarchy of “things”. They areimpacted by their environment (which businesses and the Internet are also kind of a part of… maybe not entirely unlike nature/nurture), but also by microorganisms like employees.  Employees certainly represent the cells and systems of the business organism, but also viruses that impact the development of the organism.  That may lead to the collapse (“extinction”?) of certain types of, or even individual businesses, as viral organisms overtake them and make them unfit for survival in their environment.  Interesting train of thought, could easily develop into an entire post of its own.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1037918 and to a lesser/secondary extent http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041077 Fascinate ROMs on Mesmerize.  Radio improvements.  Better 3G speeds, faster GPS lock?

Well done Nokia “Your decision to partner with Microsoft is as sage and wise as allowing your balls to be shaved by a mental patient.” DrXym (126579), /. Comment #35906170

Olympic National Park

http://www.static-cisco.com/assets/sol/ent/cin/technology_pcast.xml Need to read up on how to properly do podcast, look to see if there are any good android apps to auto-download and arrange, and find my tunecaster.

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The Unawareness Routine

Posted December 19, 2009 By Landis V

This is something I had published elsewhere a while ago. I read it this evening and thought it worthy of sharing.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

I was watching my dog this evening as he was outside on his very heavy duty cable and equally heavy duty stake. While not suited for constraining an elephant, it definitely leaves no concerns for a 65lb mutt.

There is an ash tree growing in my back yard, which happens to fall within the circumfrence of the area reachable by said dog when attached to said cable. As I watched Flop explore the great outdoors, I became aware of something I had not previously considered. His explorations brought him within the vicinity of the ash tree. Surely you know the near future of the story, as we have all watched in amusement at the canine inability to comprehend cables and trees. He wound around a few times before freeing himself to continue exploring.

It is this few moments of decreasing circle of existence which I now wish to explore. As Flop wrapped and disentangled himself from the ash tree, I considered his lack of understanding, lack of awareness of his environment. A good, relatively intelligent dog, but lacking the comprehension of all characteristics of his environment.

Continuing this to humans, for I believe there are none amongst us with a full comprehension of the myriad aspects, rules, and components that make up the totality of our existence… what, then, are the limitations and/or influences which affect us that we are not aware of simply due to lack of understanding?

I am well aware that this is an open ended question of an epic nature, for if we simply knew and understood… we would understand the effects of these elements upon our daily lives. If we understood them, what more would we be able to accomplish? What obstructions would we remove from our lives? How large would our world become??? I will not attempt to answer it here, only to note that it is something which I will do my best to consider going forward in my life. What more would be possible if we could eliminate the unawareness routine?

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