I guess it won't come as any surprise if I say that my life is busy right now. The secret project moves on apace and is looking good. Watch this space as they say. I've started another blog on my pagefall website. The pagefall blog is more about day to day stuff in the world of development rather than my life and I actually find I am posting to it more often.
I watch the recent Huygens decent onto Titan with great excitement. I've said it before (and I have no doubt I'll say it again) but this kind of engineering just blows me away. To have two devices travel for seven years and billions of miles and then work together to bring us the kind of images and data they have returned is just incredible. The web helps bring it all alive too and I was thrilled to come across this website. Increasingly the web is breeding a collection of people who don't wait for others to do things for them but just get on with it themselves.
I can see this trend increasing. The mechanisms of government and even big organizations often leaves a great deal to be desired. From projects like the Open Tsunami warning project to analysis of science data to the likes of groklaw people are doing things for themselves. I wonder how long it will be before big organizations in the public sector are either sidelined or forced to work much more cooperatively with the world at large.
Posted by Mark at January 25, 2005 10:23 AM