Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.

Threat level?

The current homeland security level is:
Terror Alert Level
This sort of stuff makes me laugh, even if it’s just a trafic generator for geekandproud.net. Shame that Big Bird does not appear there too..

Geeks! Don’t go to London..

It’s Scary on the Tube..

Welcome to slashbucks.

Cappuccino for nerds, macchiato that matters.
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Hamster power.

An enterprising student.. Hamster powered mobile phone charger! brilliant. Why he only got a ‘C’ for this is beyond me, it looks both inventive and well constructed to me..

:)

Don’t worry, get smiley

Peer to Peer

is currently getting a lot of attention.
I like this piece in the Guardian about it, here’s a choice quote..

If you look back over the history of technology, one thing stands out above all others, namely that the inventors of radical technologies rarely foresee the applications that people will find for their inventions.

Marconi conceived of radio as a point-to-point communications technology rather than broadcast (one to many) technology. Henry Ford thought he had invented a way of making motor cars, whereas in fact he invented a way of manufacturing products in huge volumes at low marginal cost.

And the geniuses who conceived the internet thought they were inventing a way of enabling folks to log in remotely to mainframe computers, whereas in fact they designed a technology for enabling us to send email, spin the World Wide Web, girdle the earth with a zillion lines of personal communication – and, yes, share music and video files.”

Only a fool farts in a burning house.

Supposedly a Klingon saying ;-)

Flatland

Written over 100 years ago, told from the perspective of a 2-dimensional being. Weird but Cool.

Brauch’s Observation:

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
etc..

Quit Slashdot

It´s a waste of time really.. Some very reasoning here.

Hurrah!

I´ve got gmail. Try:

owen point carter at gmail point com

Yep, just use a ´.´ where I say ´point´, and don´t forget the ´at´ (@), it´s an anti-Spam measure. :-)

Also; note that I can´t access this mail account from work :(

Does beer make you attractive?

When I’m drunk I get plenty of women. It’s sorta funny how I can only find thier ugly roomates when I wake up though. Seen on /.