A commitment to innovation and sustainability

I tend to be about three years behind things when it comes to technology. If you are willing to wait three years, the amount of money needed to acquire technology devices like mobile phones, laptops, cameras, etc. is vastly less. (Actually for cameras I usually end up waiting even longer since they are so expensive.)…

Here are some excerpts from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. I’m picking the ones that are the most critical and most frequently violated (in the United States): Conscious of its spiritual and moral heritage, the Union is founded on the indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; it is based on…

I wrote a little while ago about how the oligarchy operates. The oligarchy controls Big Media in the United States. All of the major networks and their hundreds of affiliate stations are run by them. Almost all major news publications are run by them. They strictly control the “stories” that are in the news, and…

In this age of all these things which purport to be one thing yet in actuality are something quite different, in which things which are claimed to advance one thing or another accomplish rather the detraction of such things, there is one more thing that can be added to the list: The non-provacative provocation. Today,…

bbc.com Japan to allow military role overseas in historic move The legislation is needed to protect the people of Japan and their peaceful way of life, and to prevent a war. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Would the USA oligarchy actually protect Japan in dire time of need? I think that the leaders of Japan…

I haven’t updated the main landing page of alaya.net in a very long time. It uses the WordPress plugin Network Latest Posts to show posts from both techne.alaya.net and soma.alaya.net. I wrote about this a while back, but the main idea is to keep things more related to technical stuff on techne.alaya.net (being based on…

Get rid of Wiki markup. Replace it with HTML. HTML has evolved a lot and HTML5 is quite amazing. If HTML5 cannot yet replace all the features of Wiki markup, then it should be extended. But Wiki markup is a bad idea and should be discarded. References: code.google.com wiki2html; Parses wiki markup and generates HTML5…

I was just reading about great Eurasian Steppe and something made me feel sad. Because, not that long ago in the history of humankind, it would have been possible for any human to just go where they wanted, to roam the vast steppe stretching for thousands of miles from Asia to Europe, without worrying about…

This was mentioned months ago in tech news but I thought I’d mention it again. Its possible to get Google Earth Pro for free: Use of Google Earth Pro requires a valid license key. As of January 20, 2015, Earth Pro licenses are now free. After getting your Earth Pro license, you can register, download,…

Progress should not mean the stepping on, the violating of boundaries in order to determine what not to violate for the sake of greed and profit. People need to follow other models. There are healthy models available if people want to learn them and use them. I believe that technology can be fundamentally beneficial to…