http://www.kilbot.co.uk A Story of Work Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WorkSpace has the best PR. This should be no surprise as they also have the best of everything else; cherry picking was second nature to the myriad minds that ran the corporation. PR had to be good, they had the unenviable task of shoehorning an essentially incompatible prickly cactus ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/08/20/charlie-babbitt/ It lived in the sun. It thought with light. It was a tethered god. It is the largest living being on the planet. From low earth orbit, perhaps 350 kilometres up, India is a stunning splinter of silver, a concentrated kernel of thermonuclear ur-light that whips around every ninety minutes, a ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/08/09/mute/ Brant has travelled a bit, some contracting work in China, a stint in South America with a backpack and whining Danish girlfriend, even some Provencal pretensions as an abortive property developer (Brant couldn’t spot a bear market if it chewed his face off) – he flattered himself that he had ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/08/02/deafblind-date/ The liberti is called Daisy Longley. This fact (and several others) was delivered in a snivelly and hitched voice in between bouts of wretched crying in a Starbucks on Croydon High Street. Cradling a tall latte (extra hot, triple shot - her urban survival reflexes evidently still partially intact), and ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/07/11/brighton-run/ Brant is out of child’s piss. This is a problem. A bigger one is getting more - avoiding the spastically reflexive anti-paedo screening - both passive bio and active thermograph (groin heat – see?) that typically encompasses the average suburban London school with a one and half kilometre perimeter of ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/07/02/calvary-soldier/ It could have gone either way. A haven-distributed, largely tax-free windfall of over two hundred and fifty million Euros can have a delirious effect on anyone. To a centless decon worker from the crushing fields of Chittagong it was initially mostly beyond comprehension. A slightly more culture saturated target of ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/05/31/nazca-tweets/ It turned out that saving the world was a bit of a let down, there was just so much crap to deal with. When he was at the Madhom yard (and when he had had the energy to think about it), it had seemed simple: Remove the bloatware management goons, ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/05/25/instruction-creep/ It is an article of faith at WorkSpace that at some point you’ll be told. Not because experience bears out this belief, and not because you believe that ultimately it is the right thing that should be done (check your quaint sensibilities at the front desk please), but merely because ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/05/19/drip-down/ At nearly thirty-seven thousand kilometres above southern Afghanistan, the geo-stationary WorkSpace relay milsat is a barely detectable stellar mote in the clear, frigid, night sky. Suspended in a cylindrical vat of liquid helium, and protected with a ring of bulky tanks of propellant, the mind of the satellite pulses gently ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/04/19/its-the-only-way-to-be-sure/ It's hard Babs. Being human I mean; most days I wish I was like you. A synthetic, mediated consciousness devoid of anxiety, fear, self doubt and pointless introspection. Today was horrible - don't sigh, I know I say that most days - but honestly you have no idea (can have ... http://www.kilbot.co.uk/2009/04/19/notes-to-babs-4/