http://www.accidental-light.com A Performance Art Accident Blog Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So farewell then CD ... I posted some time ago about the demise of CD and the rise of hard-disk based replay systems but I didn't think that it would be this fast. I have a Lavry DA-10 on order, hopefully it will arrive today, and intend to connect it to ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=229 Many years ago. Many, many years ago when I was at college all entertainment was mechanical (apart from some Asteroids and a 3D Tank game). It was claimed, although I am not entirely sure that I ever saw it done, that the pinball machines could be gamed to give free ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=228 This weekend saw our annual pilgrimage to the New Forest to pick mushrooms and to stay at our favourite "Restaurant With Rooms" The Three Lions. Last year the forest was alive and it was less the New Forest and more some kind of Enchanted Forest (you think I exaggerate). This ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=227 Following on from recent posts on risk from myself, Dom and JP on the subject of risk, quantification of risk and the management of risk I had the great misfortune to come across a specific instance of the null model of risk management. My son (10 years old) plays football in ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=225 And so it starts: And The Walls Come Tumbling Down. Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=224 I was going to return to the subject of risk but as so often happens synchronicity stepped in. Being now the very proud owner (no owner, that is the wrong word, friend is better) of an iPod Touch hooked into The Cloud WiFi I am in a position to comment on ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=222 The model that society is choosing to manage risk is the null model where risk is eradicated (as discussed in the previous post on this subject) leaving no risk left to manage - hence a null model. This null model selection also appears in other areas and especially (at least ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=219 Hello world http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=218 I know JP has talked about this area before and I think I may have done at one point but that may have been over a coffee or in a dream rather than in a more public forum. In any case, can't find any previous post so at the risk ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=217 You'll have all seen this by now, I guess, but while the muse is playing Knock Down Ginger I may as well join the growing throng. For starters: Radiohead--probably the biggest unsigned band in the world--is putting out said album, In Rainbows, without any record label. For another: If you want ... http://www.accidental-light.com/?p=216