http://www.recalcitrance.net 1. resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:58:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a photographer, I often get angry at the level of photo-manipulation that is performed on photographs to make them look better.  I also get angry when it comes to cliques of people who all take bad photographs, but who en masse, believe that the fact so many others do ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2010/04/20/adobe-photoshop-cs5s-content-aware-fill-and-why-the-hype-is-just-hype/ It's dark. The sky, illuminated by the lights of London, glows orange, highlighted only by the eerie lightness of clouds. In the distance, the growl of industrial machinery dully cycling can be heard, but, to her, the only thing she feels is that of being enveloped by Sigur Rós, while the ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2009/05/26/sometimes-its-the-simple-things/ After reading http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/carter_net_neut/ and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/30/isp_carter_music_policing/, I got a sudden urge to write to the idiot that is promoting this stuff: Lord Carter of Barnes House of Lords London SW1A 0PW Re: Your quaint ideas about the internet Dear Lord Carter of Barnes, On behalf of everyone who actually understands The Internet (it's not actually a series of ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2009/01/30/an-open-letter-to-lord-carter-of-barnes/ It is a design feature; Steve Jobs collects the souls; So cutting peoples wrists on the MacBooks; Means quicker soul harvesting. Also, I need a sticker for my new MacBook... one which reads "Built from aluminum tempered with the charred, crushed skulls of pretentious mac users" http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/12/22/macbook-tanka/ This all came about while I was pondering the best way to dump an overview of what was sat on my network in the datacenter; the main reason being a lack of useful documentation telling me what IPs were in use to narrow it down at all. The idea ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/12/15/monitoring-your-network-with-nmap/ Someone asked me earlier tonight whether I was feeling festive... my response sums up exactly how I feel about this time of the year: Festive... me?  No, that's the last thing anyone would accuse me of being in December. I'm averse the spirit of christmas as it is these days - an ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/12/15/on-christmas/ Or, perhaps, entering it. Life is merely a construct, whether that construct exists solely within our collective consciousness, or individually, or on a cluster of computers that we're plugged into while being harvested for energy makes little difference. Perception of this construct is individual, what one person sees ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/09/19/escaping-the-matrix/ I had planned to keep this thing entirely tech and interesting stuff only, however, right now, I could use some place to vent, and this seems as good a place as any. Being single has its charms; no, really, it does.  Singledom goes very nicely with being a social outcast; I ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/08/01/loneliness/ I can only assume that Tower Hamlets council is made up of people who have an IQ of less than 75. At least, the council tax department is, from the experience I've had with them thus far. I live in an apartment, it is nestled on the 3rd floor between ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/07/23/they-fail-it-it-is-being-a-council/ Between the screams of needy children, and the louder more aggressive screams of their parents, it's easy to begin to lose your grip on sanity as you walk through the check-in gates of an airport. Often, you require special skill to navigate between those who feel it is both ... http://www.recalcitrance.net/2008/06/20/planes-trains-and-automobiles/