dcinput daily for Thu 29th June, 2006
Ask a Ninja: Net Neutrality.
I haven’t been listening to any Daily Source Codes since my ipod broke - 6th time now but the warranty seems to have just expired on this last one. I’ve been treating it as a DSC holiday which has actually been quite nice as I’ve been able to do read some books on my commutes.
I was looking at the shownotes for the last few shows and it seems that Adam has been talking about net neutrality quite a bit. Check out this show [skip to 19:50] and this show [skip to 6:55]. He seems to have quite a lot of experience in this field and it’s worth listening what he has to say. He is against the net neutrality bill. If I get time I will try to summarise his views later today.
CNet: “Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday”.
A few days ago a big water pipe exploded under the road just near my house. We now have two enormous holes in the road and a little river. This morning the water supply had been cut off which meant no shower and perhaps more importantly no tea. 
I’ve ventured down to Upper Street and am having a nice lunch in a cafe. Great wireless! Turns out the whole of Upper Street now has free wireless in some Islington council initiative. They are calling it ‘Technology Mile‘. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
My cousin Deirdre Mulrooney is soon to start working for Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. She has a blog which I really hope she’ll start writting a little more on. I’d love to know what adventures she’ll be getting up to. Good luck with it Deirdre.
Today has been a tourist day - in my own town. I’ve been living in London nearly 10 years now and you can easily forget how beautifull it actually is. I went down to the Tate meuseum to have a look at some modern art. It’s really refreshing to do this every once and a while, it changes the way you look at things.
I took some tourist photos all along the river during my travels but it seems that flickr won’t play ball. It’s actually been doing this for around a week now and I’m starting to worry that there is something wrong with my account. Can you imagine loosing all you Flickr photos? I mean they’re all backed up but what a pain to find them and ontop of that all the links that would break in the blog…
Downloaded the Flickr uploader for Mac OSX. No joy with that either. Urrgh.
Andrew Gursky (Germany) had one photo which simply has to be seen in its full glory. It is called 99 Cent and is taken in a US store. He has digitally altered the colours so that they are far more vibrant than normal.
Other pieces that caught my eye were ‘Siena’ by Olivio Barbiera who takes arial photographs using tilt shift lenses to give the impression that everything is a scale model. Here is an example.
Magritte’s painting of the man reading the newspaper was there too. This is one of my favorites. The way he changes the perspective ever so slightly in each quadrant combined with the fact that the man only apears in the top left quadrant makes me just want to keep looking at it.
Magritte, a Belgian surrealist, apparently prefered quiet subversion over public action. If you know Belgium and its people well you might have seen this in its culture, a part of which has definitely rubbed off on me from my years there.
I’m not too sure of the legality of any of these pictures being on the blog so I’ll be happy to remove them if this is a problem. Just mail me.