About a decade ago, I began thinking about software development, and what a piece of software, ie. application, ultimately boils down to; a series of 1’s and 0’s.

All the software that could ever be created, including the most bug filled, could be produced by simply producing vast permutations of 1’s and 0’s. Of course, finding the “right” applications would prove to be impossible. However, I suspect that there are statistical characteristics amongst various types of well formed programs that could narrow the search for the “right” applications.

Social capital is a really interesting concept and while we can stand there and get woosy about putting a fiscal value on friendship, we do it all the time when we follow recommendations friends make (e.g. use ‘that’ electrician or buy ‘that’ camera). That said there are some very interesting privacy issues with Facebook; the whole Scoble debacle and I saw Danny is in the Data Portability group – it’ll be interesting to see what they produce.

It’s a pity you can’t see my blog on this whole thing – but it’s currently internal only

Hoping this will help you some

Gary

Kung Fu requires a lot of systematic training, and discipline, many students often feel, as you do, that they aren’t progressing as fast as they’d like. One of more common trends these days is for people to take up martial arts as a form of self defence, whilst this isnt their only goal, it is important to them. I’ve seen students get frustrated at the fact that they don’t believe that they can become proficient enough to protect themselves relatively quickly – or to put it bluntly … they feel they can’t fight their way out of a paper bag … or as you put it “be like Bruce Lee” … without years and years of training.

I guess it boils down to what you actually want to achieve, and if you feel you are achieving it through learning Kung Fu then that’s great.