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Ongoing fascination with how physical objects relate us to our world, artificial boundaries we create that separate us from nature, and how our senses are shaped by the way we live as our cultures evolve.
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We are back!
A couple of weeks ago, a hard disk failure on the server which hosted hippiesque.com took us off the web. It was the worst possible time to notice that the hosting company had somehow… forgotten to backup our databases, our sites, our files. Everything.
We did our best to salvage the contents of the site from [...]
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Radio silence / moving house
There is something about the act of packing I find peaceful. Perhaps it’s because I’m accustomed to travelling, and packing is a little ritual that allows you to make peace with the fact that your surroundings will soon change. Or maybe it’s because packing is such a finite, predictable act. On a journey, you know [...]
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Prelude without a fugue
About a year ago, I was attending a panel at a conference where the panelists were discussing moving towards “green” offices, initiating recycling programs at your work place, strategies to adopt for lowering waste and consumption, and so forth. It wasn’t particularly enlightening — if being green is something you care about, all these [...]
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