Bringing the Internet of Things to my flat

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

When I was young I used to think a lot about how to create a machine that could track and organise every single object in the world, giving easy access to bizarre information like exactly how many blue cars there were in my home town, how many people in my county, where the greatest concentration of certain types of animals were, and so on. It was perhaps a sign of some kind of obsessive compulsive disorder, which, if the highly organised state of my MP3 collection is anything to go by, is still ticking along nicely.

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