The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
Kuehleborn's Unfathomable Thoughts
Hojoki is shutting down
That’s the problem with all those new companies: you never know how long they will last and are able to maintain their service. Almost a year ago I wrote about the then-new service Springpad. It was gone before I got a chance to learn how to use it. I am glad I didn’t leave Evernote […]
Tresorit – Create and access content easily.
Well, it was not that easy to access my content, because I lost my password. 🙁 Tresorit is another cloud storage service, like the well-known DropBox. I signed up for a Tresorit account when it was in its very initial stage (6 months and 13 days ago!); there were no mobile apps for it. So, […]
Online Music Creating with Aviary
Aviary is a free suite of powerful online creation tools. You can edit photos, logos, web templates and more, but I’m not very good with graphics – until now I only use Aviary for screen capturing. Now they have released their online Music Creating tool. Of course it cannot compete with FLStudio or Ableton Live […]