Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

• Sat, 17:11: A Simple Blossom http://t.co/2JAt1YYa
• Sat, 17:21: Purple Dashed http://t.co/YfZUekv0
• Sat, 17:29: Mediterranea http://t.co/p2BUb4b0
• Sat, 18:51: Really enjoying the complexity of Person Of Interest. Come to the conclusion that The Machine has its own agenda, Like @cstross' ATHENA.
• Sat, 19:16: @getwired Now imagine living in a country where those prepared foods aren't available at all. Frustrating and annoying.
• Sat, 20:27: IT departments are going to have two classes of WIndows 8 tablets to manage. AD-controlled x86 SOC and workgroup WOA. Will be interesting!
• Sat, 21:57: The Cherry Blossoms Fall http://t.co/sKUuT7Se
• Sat, 22:39: Come on @spam, block those incessent Six Flags spammers already! They're all using the same canned tweet...
• Sun, 10:13: RT @jjn1: The BBC Micro @ 30 | Technology | The Observer http://t.co/a3arMFCw
• Sun, 10:15: Thirty years of the BBC Micro. My first machine was a Model B. Taught me both software and hardware - so much you could do with one.

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There's a house down our street with a dragon on the roof.

It's a proud wee terracotta beastie, rising up on its haunches, wings spread, to greet the sun and the cloud alike. It stares up at the passing planes as they glide down to Heathrow, counting the hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years, the centuries. It's our Clock Of The Long Now, older than us all and destined to outlast our scurrying little lives.

It looks down on Putney, it watches and it waits.

I like it a lot.







Every street needs a dragon.