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Free RFID workshop with Forskningsavdelningen

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Forskningsavdelningen decided to have a RFID workshop on Thursday (today 27 August 2009), so please come today and bring your rfid tags and readers.

RFID tags come in all shapes and sizes

RFID tags come in all shapes and sizes

As you may know, RFID is a technology used in transportation cards sucha as the new Skånetrafiken “Jojo”, Stockholm Länstrafik’s “Access”, and the London Underground “Oystercard”, as well as Öresundsbron bridge “BroBizz”, and multiple other places. These cards operate without any internal battery/power source but are powered from the radio signals sent to it from the “reader”.

Wikipedia on RFID

Please come from 18:30 to 22:00. This event is all free. Holler to me if you need instructions on getting there.

Enjoy RuPy for me

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I went to Poznan, Poland in 2007. They run a very nice conference on dynamic languages, mainly focused on Ruby and Python.

The post-RuPy party was stellar. The atmosphere during the event was kind, interested, and curious.

OK, what you do now is go there for me. You submit a talk, and say hi to everyone from me. Take photos. Enjoy Poland, I can’t go this year.

On “POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort”

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POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort
by Colin Bennett


On this book about Charles Hoy Fort, that I was lent by a local sci-fi author.

Quite talky at times, wandering around the subject, which is, a sad lonely poor writer, who was either a fool squandering his life in libraries, or a hero in service of his High Work against the technology-science-complex.

A Marx, or a Barthes, much before his time.

Treatment in Bennett can be wordy, as I said. I’ll put up with that. I’m wordy myself.


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