a blog about information
There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting … Continue reading “There’s something happening here”
Of late, I’ve been spending quite some time thinking about longitudinal studies; a number of you have engaged with me with encouraging feedback after my most recent post on this, on the impact of change and the time it takes to assess that impact. There are many reasons for this, but there’s a principal one. … Continue reading “Voyages of discovery”
This is the second in a series on notifications and alerts, building on what I started sharing earlier today, as promised. First, a musical interlude. Someone’s knocking at the door, somebody’s ringing the bell/ Do me a favour/Open the door/And let them in. Mum, the kettle’s boiling/Daddy, what’s the time/Sis, look what you’re doing/Can’t you … Continue reading “Thinking lazily about notifications and alerts: Part 2”
[Note to readers. This post may appear to do with cricket. Perhaps it does. But it’s about more than that]. I had to smile when I first came across what Douglas Adams had to say about our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and … Continue reading “Thinking about pink balls”
Sometime next year, it will have been fifty years since I first completed the Times crossword, some weeks short of my tenth birthday. For many years it wasn’t just a pastime, it was an addiction, something I’ve written about before, most recently here. Doing the crossword was part and parcel of getting ready for the … Continue reading “Crosswords and buses”