James Scott

The beginning of the end for cash

Posted by scotjam in Posts from twitter, Uncategorized on April 21st, 2011

The beginning of the end for cash? Louisiana has banned the use of cash to buy second-hand goods. A pretty disastrous step for freedom and privacy - hopefully so-much-so that this will be overturned by a sheer wall of pubic opposition.

http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law

At the same time, the closest electronic analog to cash, bitcoins are suddenly very cheap

Bitcoin

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Top 100 science fiction books

Posted by scotjam in Posts from twitter, Uncategorized on March 20th, 2011

A list of top 100 science fiction books has been put together by NPR
As a more digestible follow-up to this, an interesting “science fiction and fantasy decision tree” has been constructed by SF Signal - my taste seems mostly to be on the right hand side (SF) of the tree, and in particular in the bottom-right corner

SFF decision tree

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Ofcom:[Maharishi School] pupil…

Posted by scotjam in Posts from twitter on May 31st, 2009

Ofcom:[Maharishi School] pupils make outstanding progress from their individual starting points http://bit.ly/7hVNI Acad:http://bit.ly/b8Xzt

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Twitter on my blog

Posted by scotjam in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2009

Given that I am now updating Twitter much more regularly than I update my blog, I thought it would make sense to link the two - there are a bunch of Wordpress plugins that do a good job of displaying your latest tweets in a sidebar on your blog, but I thought it would be better to have the tweets as actual blog posts (so that they don’t take ages to load, and disappear entirely during Twitter’s frequent downtime, as well as to make them searchable from my blog). This way, you save / archive your Twitter posts (tweets) for the rest of their natural life on your blog.

Thankfully, as always, there’s someone out there who has thought of this already and written a plugin for it - this time it’s Alex King with his Twitter Tools plugin - you can find Twitter Tools here: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress - thanks Alex!

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