A remarkable journey ends with dumping your dirty laundry on a table at Customs

Had the doctoral colloquium tonight. We now have a Plone site, so this might be obsolete or redundant, but we will see. It might not.

I've been thinking alot about Parmenides. Funny. I'm a technologist. Why do I always end up thinking about dead Greeks? I guess because I'm coming to the conclusion that the real problem with technology is the problem of ongoing change. Does change, or rather process, really come down to the idea that that is all there is? There are no fixed points, no "improvement" per se, but rather the simple fact that everything is different all the time and we have to find a way to make this process part of culture. We look for improvement, but what we really have to look for is culture over time.

Now I'm confused.

There is also some constancy as well, as the tension between progressive forces and traditional ones; between central control and local, those who value behaviour that conforms against those who respect the individual. There is change, but it can make sense because it happens in a context.

I better stop now.