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(PG Wodehouse)
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Requires NYT login
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Systemic failure cascading?
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Within prison perimeter, rfid to allow escortless movement of prisoners. "We don't have a ROI case, but we think it will make a significant difference"(!) Via http://www.rfid-weblog.com
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Does an a/sync data model between mobile and server risk catastrophic real-world failures? No, because the IT defers to the people using it - smart people are usually better at managing problems. So we let them. (Self-linking, the shame)
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"Look, all of you, will you just forget about hotspots for WiFi phones? It's irrelevant, a niche of a niche of a niche. Dual-mode phones are about using VoWLAN in the home & at work."
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"I think that what blocks so many writers is a platonic view of the text... I've always subscribed to the other view that everything is a version. [...The book argues] that what you need for a revealed religion is any old bollocks... in the right place at
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Yes, Riddley Walker as language/plot precursor, but see also Wright's A Scientific Romance or Zardoz on the corruption of codes, ie cultural chinese whispers. (And is M John Harrison a better reviewer than novelist? Discuss.)
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"Every hotel room with a sufficiently big mirror reduces a man to the level of Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. The urge to order up scotch, do nude kung-fu and smash the mirror is almost insurmountable."
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"Struggling to get out from beneath this conventional assault on that dim-witted part of the populace which has the effrontery to believe in God is a wide-ranging novel of London life, harking back to Richard Jeffries' After London"
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"The Book of Dave envisions a post-apocalyptic London, rebuilt along lines imagined by all those novelists obsessed with the seamy side of life in the capital."
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"ou always get the feeling, reading Self, that he’s not so much a writer as a talker, writers tending to be best in their second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth thoughts. Self’s so quick and so sharp, he’s really more of a wit, and he knows it, and s
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