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As many of you may or may not have known, I have in the past written many an article for a website known as key23. This changed its name to key64 a short time ago and as a consequence when I set up the links for this blog, I added key64 instead of key23.
However [...]

Just a quick post to say I’ve signed up an account with last.fm
I’m not sure about downloading their scrobbler thingy. Since I don’t really play music off my PC I don’t see the point, and having something monitor what I play and reporting it back to some website seems a bit intrusive on my [...]

Just published on Key64.net:
http://key64.net/article/1329-freedom-and-liberty-in-democracy-today

…or a little less wise?
I’d been having tooth ache problems from a rotten wisdom tooth. No more! The tooth is gone. Instead I have a mouth full of blood and numb with anaesthetics right up into my sinuses. Not to mention a mind and body in shock at what just happened.
But [...]

It’s been a long time since I wrote the original KIA manifesto late in the year 2000 and with a small group of others launched the original Kaotic Illuminated Adepts as a newsletter on Yahoo! Groups.  In Norwich UK a small temple of about six real members took shape, all of whom were at the [...]

Okay, I’m probably going to reveal a slightly nerdy side to my nature here, but what the hell. I’m not ashamed to reveal that I spent a lot of my time between the ages of 11 and 18 rolling dice, some of which had numbers of sides other than six, and even a nice [...]

A little while ago I read Liber Malorum – Children of the Apple, a collection of short stories themed on “sex, drugs, witchcraft, anarchy and apples.” and I so enjoyed reading it that I promised Sean I would write a review.
Well its been a while now and I still haven’t written one and to be [...]

Any person is a component in a cybernetic system of the social situations and contexts that they generally interact with. What component will have the most influence on the outcome of an interaction depends on what cyberneticists call requisite variety. Requisite variety is the number of options available to the component as a response to [...]