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Entries from David Roessli's Empty Set tagged with 'self'
Needles and haystacks and such
I love this one. The same curve applies to age vs wisdom. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated October 9th, 2009. Happy birthday little sis....
All else being equal
Another great doodle from Jessica Hagy that says it all. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated August 26th, 2009....
Defrag
Time for my yearly summer family break. I'm off to Cornwall with the kids for a week to catch up with the family, the ocean breeze and the softness of the Cornish landscape. I'll catch up with you once...
Information overload and/or closet organizers
So true. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated July 8th, 2009....
27 Jun 2009
atmedia • conference • mood • self • social
Homebound
Waiting in lounge at London City Airport. @media 2009 came to a close yesterday with Patrick announcing he's retiring from web design, development and conference organising. I'm feeling a little emotional, but I wish to thank Patrick for what...
Do you wonder?
I love Jessica Hagy's doodles and couldn't resist sharing with you her last one which happens to be very relevant on a personal level. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated June 23rd, 2009....
The widest smile
It was last Wednesday, around six thirty in the afternoon. Mathias had left for his camp early Monday morning, and was scheduled to call in early evening. Emma had been sleeping in his bed and wearing his swimming trunks...
Nameless
Up too early again. Literally with the birds and my thoughts, not knowing which awoke me. Probably my thoughts. There is quite a bit going on lately, on all fronts. Professionally, several dormant projects have bounced back to life...
Ten
Ten. It has always been a special number to me. In a decimal or binary system. It is the first two digit number you learn. Ten years. Intimately linked to a gap. Things must happen in ten years. Things must...
Revisited
“Stop all the tweets, power off the phones, Prevent Mail from beeping with its shiny tones, Silence the podcasts, put up the black sail, Close the weblogs, and let the silence prevail. Let the webcams' white noise crackle ahead...
Gap
gap | gap | noun 2 an unfilled space or interval; a break in continuity Between oneself and yourself. Between what one is and what one seems. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for...
17 Nov 2008
mood • rant • self • technology
We're not friends
No. We're not friends. Anymore. We been best of pals for so long now, it is not easy to write these lines. More than one won't understand my stand, but I've been let down just this once too many....
90 days
It's been almost 90 days since my last post. Whoosh. It's not like nothing happened, or that I haven't written anything, or felt, reflected, pondered or brainstormed. No. It's just that I haven't published anything. I have a number...
Serenity
Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Come back later to read a tale of failing hardware and unwilling people. Currently playing...
Soulmate
A different reality. A state of mind. A new colour. A direct line. A stateless presence. A broader horizon. A free thinker. A cloudless sky. Now and here. soulmate (also soul•mate) noun a person ideally suited to another as...
Fractal raindrops
One story is told of how John W. Gates, John W. Drake, and John W. Lambert, another associate, were watching a heavy rainstorm come up. It was thundering and lightning terrifically. Gates stood in front of the window and...
Burned
It's a bright new day. I remember this day, nine years ago as if it were yesterday. Some events just burn into your memory cells forever. More than a turn in my life, it was an opening. An opening...
iPhoned 10 years after
Gee. I've just realised it will be 10 years this spring that I've owned a cellphone. Well, several would be more accurate. While my iPhone was being knocked about in a UPS van somewhere, I began to try and...
Thin line
Early rise again. Black coffee and code for breakfast. I should be use to these events by now, but there's always the dreaded hardware failure, or worse, software failure, that looms in the back of my mind as the...
Early ramblings
Up early today. Euphemism. Up in the middle of the night rather. 5:30am. Even the birds haven't started to sing yet. I hear the wind blowing. I feel can it. A warm sort of wind. Outside, I can only...
In sync
As March looms in once more with its load of festivities, rejoicing (and workload), Emma will turn 7 and Mathias 9 over the following couple of weeks. Birthday parties are being organised, birthday invitations designed and printed, wish-lists amended....
Feeling chirpy @16:43
Didn't get half of I wanted to do this week, but the spirits are high at the week-end's dawn. The sun is out, the air is almost warm. I'm working with the windows open. Everything has a warm goldy hue...
31 Jan 2008
frustration • life • mood • self • time
Days like this
Days when things just go wrong, haywire, off target, awry, out of order. Murphy is never far, add a pinch of procrastination and the day has come and gone. The Todos remain, the sun sets and it's time to...
Embracing iTunes Plus, or from LPs to MP4a, or some 32 years of music
Apple launched their DRM free music (256kbps AAC) last Tuesday by creating a new entity of the iTunes Store called iTunes Plus. All of EMI's catalog was to be offered in DRM free form sometime in May, and user...
A bird's eye view
There are times when I get a glipmse of my broader me in the big picture. Not the big picture of course, but a wider perspective from a few steps back, something a little bit more global. In time and...
The clouds are back
Back blogging at the Mouton Noir. It was blue in the west and grey in the east when I left home this morning. Seasonal weather seems to have caught up with us this last week. Temperatures have dropped, it...
Damp and powerless
1st of May 8:00a. The sun is still shy, but shines through a blue water washed sky with the last yesterday's scattered clouds running away. I'm writing this post from the Mouton Noir with 12 wireless access points around...
Welcome to the empty set
Welcome to the Empty Set [∅]. In mathematics and more specifically set theory, the empty set is the unique set which contains no elements. Wikipedia Multiple personalities Basically, this weblog is all about solving a case of multiple personalities. The...
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