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Alexander Light's blog is a thing made out of words, pictures and digital stuffs. It is not a thing specifically about Alexander Light. However, by virtue of acting as a receptacle for things Alexander Light regards as interesting or of value, it therefore must be a representative artifact of Alexander Light's current interests or state of mind. alexanderlight used to be a blog at http://alexanderlight.blogspot.com/ which is still there, should you feel the need to go deep. (p.s. I've not started routinely talking about myself in the 3rd person, I'm just trying to sort out my SEO rankings). Still here? Here's a list of people who I like and that I occasionally steal things from:

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Hydrogen ingesting, carbon nano-tube coated, twitching jelly robot YEAH!

Now go and read this: a good old fashioned future. to continue your robot jelly info-burst.

Part of my ongoing personal mission to explain to people HOW THE INTERNET ACTUALLY WORKS, like in a real, physical way has led me to this on submarine cables. It’s a lot more interesting than I just made that sound. This means in future when someone says “god Skype is rubbish, I was video chatting with someone in Bangalore and the call kept going all pixely” you can understand how your voice actually gets there. Well, sort of. Skype is a bad example. *ahem* Oddly, this was the subject of my friend Dave’s thesis when at UCL - self burying marine cables. True dat.

Part of my ongoing personal mission to explain to people HOW THE INTERNET ACTUALLY WORKS, like in a real, physical way has led me to this on submarine cables. It’s a lot more interesting than I just made that sound.

This means in future when someone says “god Skype is rubbish, I was video chatting with someone in Bangalore and the call kept going all pixely” you can understand how your voice actually gets there. Well, sort of. Skype is a bad example. *ahem*

Oddly, this was the subject of my friend Dave’s thesis when at UCL - self burying marine cables. True dat.

I keep seeing links to ”We Stopped Dreaming” and although I welcome the wake-up call, I think people like Elon Musk would strongly disagree. It’s just that now, we can have a dream free of government control - and it’s all the stronger for it. We don’t need NASA putting a man on Mars when we can do it ourselves.

I keep seeing links to ”We Stopped Dreaming” and although I welcome the wake-up call, I think people like Elon Musk would strongly disagree.

It’s just that now, we can have a dream free of government control - and it’s all the stronger for it. We don’t need NASA putting a man on Mars when we can do it ourselves.

Massively brilliant. 1:30 onwards just kills me man!

I’m really excited about the Raspberry Pi. It might be my age. Firing up some Python lessons in anticipation of it’s release, I was transported back to the hot, musty classroom at my primary school where Mr Roberts showed us how to use one of the bank of 5 BBC Micro’s the school had invested in. I’d be interested in how many kids today get taught the simple joys of 10 PRINT “ALEX IS THE BEST”, 20 GO TO 10. More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17245294 http://www.raspberrypi.org/

I’m really excited about the Raspberry Pi. It might be my age. Firing up some Python lessons in anticipation of it’s release, I was transported back to the hot, musty classroom at my primary school where Mr Roberts showed us how to use one of the bank of 5 BBC Micro’s the school had invested in. I’d be interested in how many kids today get taught the simple joys of 10 PRINT “ALEX IS THE BEST”, 20 GO TO 10.

More:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17245294

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

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