Aikido for 07/10/2010 and Jerms Memory Theater

Garry taught the first 10:30 class. After warming up, we practiced katatetori kokyunage, and worked a number of techniques. I should have written up this blog entry earlier when my memory was fresher.

Speaking of memory (or lack there of), I was inspired by reading Nathan Schneider's article, in Defense of the Memory Theater, to start consolidating my own personal information space into my own application I am calling "Jerms Memory Theater" (notice I am using the American spelling for Theater, not the British spelling; Theatre) . I plan on building my own information retrieval and management application, currently being prototyped using Python and SQLite, to coordinate all different aspects of my spacial, physical, spiritual, social, career, financial, and networked information. All of these different areas have interesting cross-connections that could be data-minded and better organized. I am using a few notable Python libraries, including Natural Language Toolkit, my own eCataloger framework, Mako templates, and various web-services. I am not sure what open-source license I'll eventually release the code under. I have been a fan of the Apache2 license, but I want to further protect this project, so I am now leaning towards the GNU General Public License (GPL).