Wednesday Jul 7, 2010
The London Psychogeophysics Summit
Furtherfield gallery are hosting the London Psychogeophysics Summit in August.
US cyber-security coordination
Cryptome links to a US GAO report on Cybersecurity, listing 'key challenges' in research and development.
Tuesday Jun 29, 2010
Another simulation of everything
Interesting blog by Gobion Rowlands about the FuturICT proposal for "a techno-socio-economic-ecological knowledge accelerator Global-Scale Simulation of Socio-Economic-Environmental Systems?"
Sunday Jun 6, 2010
What happened to Second Life?
A posting in Second Life, a Second Chance? blog helps me understand why I seem to hear so much less about SL these days.
Simulations of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: a study in comparative openness.
The official US govenrment site contains excellent documentation of sightings and a list of sofgtware tools including:
- GNOME:, the "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is the oil spill trajectory model used by OR&R Emergency Response Division (ERD) responders during an oil spill.".
Wednesday Jun 2, 2010
The end of NLEs?
Homeland Security Watch has a post asking 'Does the nation need a national level exercise programme'?
Tuesday Jun 1, 2010
Gunman in hospital, again....
Great story in the Las Vegas Sun - a hospital used an armed man to simulate a terrorist attack, but forgot to tell staff this was an exercise.
Monday May 31, 2010
Liturgical east
My vicar recently introduced me to the concept of 'liturgical east': a kind of simulation for spiritual purposes. The underlying tradition, that geography has spiritual dimensions, needs to be revisited.
Sunday May 16, 2010
Excellent new book on CodeIgniter
Packt have just sent me a review copy of CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development by Adam Griffiths. An excellent book, at a more advanced level than mine, and I am learning a lot from it.