How the
world is changing…… could we ever have imagined 20 years ago, first
the appearance of a best selling book and an academy award winning movie about ….
A schizophrenic mathematician and now…..
“The
Code” or Linux the Movie
Doug was
visited today by the director Hannu Puttonen who provided him with a video tape
of “The Code” which is a movie about how Linux emerged.
From the
synopsis: //www.linuxthemovie.com
“The
hero of the film is the archetype of our times: the programmer. In The Code
programming is seen partially as an art form.”
For more on
this movie, look at http://www.linuxthemovie.com
What a
wonderful world we live in, despite the recession, talk of war, difficulties of
sustainable development, we have art to remind us of the tapestry, sometimes
hidden and forgotten, that we weave with our lives.
Talking
about videos, watching with my daughter the video Prince of Egypt, there is a
scene, where his future father in law tells Moses that he is a thread in the
tapestry of life, which resonates for me with the quote Jack Park put in his Extreme Markup lecture
Upon this gifted age, in its dark
hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts..... They lie unquestioned,
uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric...
Edna
St. Vincent Millay
Bemusedly!
TGIF!
Mei Lin Fung