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Thu Jul 10,2008,
15:17 GMT
GPS Snitch Update…Academia in Peepland…Hal wakes up Early
Posted by Hal
So I drove over to SpyTech yesterday and picked up GPS Snitch, on loan to me courtesy the Calgary company Blackline GPS. It’s a pretty sophisticated instrument that lets you do way more than I thought it would including a kind of surveillance social networking which allows family and friends to track you. Pretty cool. I’ve put in an email to Blackline to let them know that I’ve picked it up and I’m ready for it to be activated. W. has agreed to let me track her for a few days as a start. Should be fun! The bad news is that the computer card I need to set up my surveillance cameras in my back alley wasn’t in yet, so I have to go back later on today and pick up the rest of the stuff. Hoping to have alley surveillance going early next week.
Other things that happened yesterday: went through the fascinating book Ctrl [space] : rhetorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, a giant tome focussing on surveillance art, and plugged quotes and information into the Peep book. (It’ll be due back to the library soon so I thought I’d better get that done.) The book is primarily written by academics, and I’m always wary about including quotes like this one from German culture critic Ursula Frohne: “We are on the threshold of a transition from the bureaucratic-institutional tactics of surveillance to the medially-staged spectacle of the individual’s total surrender to the media’s regime of the gaze.” On the other hand, there’s something great about the absolutism of the abstract culture critic, the surity and distance of language like “total surrender” to the “regime of the gaze.” So for now, I’ll leave it in. Any thoughts?
Other things I did yesterday: Played an hour of four-on-four hockey with one sub for each side, which was a great workout. Took E. to the kiddie pool at the park near our house and watched her run in and out of the freezing cold water for an hour. Woke up at 6 a.m. and got so much done that I vowed to do that everyday for the rest of my life. The vow lasted until this morning, when I woke up at 8:15.
Hope to get one more update in today after my trip to SpyTech.
Hal.
ps – don’t forget about the meet Hal in person and become his real life pal gathering next week especially for my blog readers and facebook friends…
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