This quote really resonates with me after much experience with activism.
“I made up my mind… that I would never try to reform man — that’s much too difficult.
What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions.”
R. Buckminster Fuller, 1966
Furthermore, this Fuller guy is quite interesting. Have a look here
Posted on February 12th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Ok I’ve had a few friends asking how I score all the beautiful women. So after much deliberation I’ve decided to share my long kept secrets… ok, ok, just my secrets for making you awesome online… I present you my list of Firefox add-ons that are sure to make you more awesome. Weather it be by avoiding adds, knowing where you spend you time online, adding a command line to the web or a host of other stuff. Yes I am a geek @ heart, but beautiful women seem to be into that, so why fight it.
- Adblock Plus – Blocks adds automatically. Its awesome if I had to recommend just one plugin this would be it. “Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page?”
- Ubiquity – Watch out here comes Web 3.0. Get it and learn how to use it. It makes doing common stuff on the net trivial.
- DownThemAll! – Lets you download lost of stuff fast, resume, select which links to download on a page based on filters.
- FoxyProxy – Route your traffic wherever you want, useful for automating getting around annoying web filtering. “FoxyProxy automatically switches an internet connection across one or more proxy servers based on URL patterns. Put simply, FoxyProxy automates the manual process of editing Firefox’s Connection Settings dialog.”
- Zotero – Zotero is a powerful, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.
- Update Scanner – Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don’t provide Atom or RSS feeds.
- pageaddict – Pageaddict is a Firefox extension that will remember how much time you spend on each web site during the day. It allows you to “tag” each site and restrict how much time you spend on sites with a given tag.
- TimeTracker – Do you spend too much time on Firefox? Do you open tabs faster than you can close them? Cannot get things done? Keep track of how much you browse with TimeTracker.
- TrackMeNot – Protects users against search data profiling…
- iMacros for Firefox – Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been dreaming of!
- ChatZilla – IRC Chat client, for those odd occasions when I need live help with something.”A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.”
- gTranslate – With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.
- Mouseless Browsing – Mouseless Browsing (MLB) enables you to browse the web entirely with the keyboard. The basic principle is to add small boxes with unique ids behind every link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id and press enter (there is also an automatice mode available) to trigger the corresponding action i.e. following a link, pressing a button or selecting a textfield…
- Torbutton – Torbutton provides a button to securely and easily enable or disable the browser’s use of Tor. It is currently the only addon that will safely manage your Tor browsing to prevent IP address leakage, cookie leakage, and general privacy attacks.
- Unofficial Google Translate Firefox extension – Right click, select the languages you want, and click translate page. You can also highlight text and alt+left click or alt+ middle click or ctrl+alt+left or middle click for an in-place translation
- Web Developer – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Posted on February 5th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Hey Readers,
I’ve updated the travel page to include:
- an index of posts from Japan
- information about where I’ll be studying in Germany
- and added a interview I did recently with JJJ (removed due to confidentiality agreements)
(At the bottom of this post is the updated info)
Recently I had the good fortune to be interviewed for JJJ’s Hack show. I discussed my reasons for choosing to study and work overseas, and what pressures have led me to leave Australia to obtain work in the renewable energy field. Below is the initial project description.
[Description removed to to confidentiality agreements]
My current project in Japan has been proving very challenging also. I had the fortune of scoping the project myself. In Japan I have been looking at techniques to achieve a highly distributed grid. The particular focus has been on a distributed control strategy that ensures quality, and robustness of the grid. Its an exciting area to be researching as its all cutting edge. In particular I have been programming a Multi Agent System in JAVA’s Jade environment. Its slow going, challenging work but very rewarding and I love a challenge. Exciting because it is bridging artificial intelligence, distributed control (a personal political preference of mine), and renewable energy technology.
Well I’ll leave it there, but you can expect a more detailed write-up on my project in Japan over the next couple of weeks as it winds up. I’ll leave you with a quote I like.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- Helen Case
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The follow is the updated into to the travel page.
Germany
(2009 – March to July)
Final year project at Hamburg, Germany.
- JJJ Interview about where and why I will be working aboard, and why it is necessary. (2009/1/28) - (removed due to confidentiality agreements)
Japan
(Summer 2008/09)
Work Experience as part of Engineering degree in Gifu, Japan.
Japan Blog articles
Japan Album (Photos only)
OR
Check my Facebook albums (they have comments not at the link above)
Posted on February 1st, 2009 :: Filed under
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